CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Quesada it runs 373 km to Quesada; allow about 7 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Letreros de los mártires, Las Covachicas and back through Letreros de los mártires. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
To understand this part of Jaén, you need to remember that it was a border. For two and a half centuries after the great Christian victory at Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, the frontier between Castile and the Muslim kingdom of Granada ran through the mountains to the south and east of here, and the towns of Quesada and Cazorla were fortified outposts. Castle towers still crown hills all over the province, and the old name for the area, Adelantamiento de Cazorla, tells you that it was ruled for a long time by the archbishops of Toledo as a military lordship.
Read the complete Cueva del Clarillo write-up.
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Cueva del Clarillo is where the day begins. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
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Letreros de los mártires comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Covachicas.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
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about 186 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Covachicas. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
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Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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back through Letreros de los mártires, late in the day. Next is Cueva del Clarillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Clarillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva del Clarillo. That is the ride.
Cueva del Clarillo → Letreros de los mártires is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Letreros de los mártires → Las Covachicas is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Las Covachicas → back through Letreros de los mártires is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Letreros de los mártires → Cueva del Clarillo is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.