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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520 km from Aldeaquemada to Aldeaquemada, about 11 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Cañada de la Cruz, Fuente del Sabuco I and back through Cañada de la Cruz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Aldeaquemada means burnt village, which tells you something about the history of this lonely corner of Jaén, and the shelter named Morciguilla de la Cepera sits in the hills about ten kilometres away, in the Sierra Morena. That range forms the long dark edge between the high plateau of La Mancha and the Andalusian lowlands, and its slopes are some of the richest places in Spain for rock painting. Shelters here include both Levantine figures and the simpler schematic ones, and a number are protected as part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean basin.
Read the complete morciguilla de la Cepera write-up.
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morciguilla de la Cepera is where the day begins. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz comes up about 156 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuente del Sabuco I.
High in the Sierra del Taibilla, in the borderland hills between Moratalla and Nerpio, the shelters of Fuente del Sabuco hold Levantine paintings of hunters, archers and animals, part of the rich rock art of this remote corner where Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet. Nerpio and Moratalla between them hold a remarkable number of painted shelters, making this one of the key centres of rock art in Spain, and an interpretation centre in the village explains the paintings and organises visits. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
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about 260 km into the recorded legs you reach Fuente del Sabuco I. Next is back through Cañada de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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back through Cañada de la Cruz, late in the day. Next is morciguilla de la Cepera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete morciguilla de la Cepera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at morciguilla de la Cepera. That is the ride.
morciguilla de la Cepera → Cañada de la Cruz is 156 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cañada de la Cruz → Fuente del Sabuco I is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuente del Sabuco I → back through Cañada de la Cruz is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañada de la Cruz → morciguilla de la Cepera is 158 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.