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 370 km to Quesada; allow about 7 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: 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. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
A cave with a clock in its name: nobody can tell you for certain why, but El Reloj, the shelter above the Quesada countryside in the province of Jaén, has been given that name since long before the archaeologists arrived. It lies four kilometres from the town of Quesada, on the western edge of the Sierra de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, Spain's largest protected area. The area is thick with painted shelters, among them Cueva del Reloj, Las Covachicas and La Alamedilla, which appear together on the route and which belong to the rock art listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Cueva del Reloj write-up.
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Cueva del Reloj 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.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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Letreros de los mártires comes up about 90 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.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
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about 184 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Covachicas. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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 Reloj.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva del Reloj write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva del Reloj. That is the ride.
Cueva del Reloj → Letreros de los mártires is 90 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 Reloj is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.