CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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The stops in between: Abrigo de D. Pedro mota, Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda, Abrigo del.melgar and back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Nobody lives close to this point, and that is its main fact. It lies in the eastern Sierra Morena, in the wild border country between Córdoba and Jaén, where holm oak and cork oak cover steep, empty hills and the nearest villages, Mestanza, Baños de la Encina and Cardeña, are all more than twenty-five kilometres away. The ride titles link it with the mercury mines of Almadén, whose Royal Forced Labour Gaol and miners' hospital are part of a UNESCO listing shared with Idrija in Slovenia, but Almadén lies far to the north-west, and the connection is a routing choice rather than a neighbourhood.
Read the complete La Alamedilla write-up.
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La Alamedilla is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de D. Pedro mota, 58 km on.
Aldeaquemada means the burnt village, which tells you something about how rough the Sierra Morena used to be. This is a thinly populated corner of Jaén province, on the edge of the Despeñaperros range, and the shelter named after D. Pedro Mota is one of a large group of painted rock shelters in the hills. The paintings belong to what archaeologists call Levantine and Schematic rock art, small red and black figures of people, animals and symbols made by prehistoric hunters and later farming communities, and UNESCO listed the whole Mediterranean-arc group in 1998.
Read the complete Abrigo de D. Pedro mota write-up.
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Abrigo de D. Pedro mota comes up 58 km in. Next is Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda.
Úbeda stands on a ridge above an ocean of olive trees. In every direction, the province of Jaén rolls away in silver-green rows, millions of trees planted in geometric lines up to the horizon, and on this sea floats a town of honey-coloured stone that looks as if it had been lifted from Florence. In the sixteenth century, powerful local families who served the Spanish crown, above all Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Emperor Charles V, poured their wealth into palaces and churches here, and the architect Andrés de Vandelvira gave them a Renaissance style of rare purity. Úbeda and its smaller neighbour Baeza were inscribed together on the UNESCO list in 2003.
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117 km in you reach Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda. Next is Abrigo del.melgar, 58 km on.
Quesada is a white town at the foot of the Sierra de Cazorla, in the province of Jaén, surrounded by an ocean of olive trees. The groves stretch to the horizon in every direction, a landscape that makes Jaén the world's largest producer of olive oil. Behind the town, the mountains rise steeply, with pine forest and limestone cliffs, and the Guadalquivir river has its source not far away. The Abrigo del Melgar lies in the hills just outside the town.
Read the complete Abrigo del.melgar write-up.
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Abrigo del.melgar, about halfway. Next is back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda.
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Read the complete Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda write-up.
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back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda sits at 233 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de D. Pedro mota, 59 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de D. Pedro mota write-up.
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back through Abrigo de D. Pedro mota comes up 292 km in. Next is La Alamedilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Alamedilla write-up.
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La Alamedilla closes the day.
La Alamedilla → Abrigo de D. Pedro mota is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de D. Pedro mota → Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda → Abrigo del.melgar is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del.melgar → back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda → back through Abrigo de D. Pedro mota is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de D. Pedro mota → La Alamedilla is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.