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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615 km from Úbeda to Úbeda, about 13 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo del.melgar, Cañada de la Cruz, Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I and Fuensanta II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda write-up.
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Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del.melgar, 44 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 comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 192 km into the recorded legs you reach Cañada de la Cruz. Next is Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
Nerpio is about as far from anywhere as you can get in mainland Spain. The village sits in the southwestern corner of Albacete province, where Castilla-La Mancha meets Andalusia and Murcia, in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, at the end of long, winding roads. It is known for its walnut trees, which line the valleys and give the village its pride, and for its rock art: the hills around are full of shelters with prehistoric paintings, and Nerpio is one of the most important centres for Levantine art in Spain. The Abrigo de la Fuente de Montañoz is one of these shelters, near a spring in the hills above the Taibilla river.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I, about halfway. Next is Fuensanta II.
Fuensanta II is the sort of name only an archaeologist could love, a numbered rock shelter in the hills of northwest Murcia where prehistoric painters left a handful of figures on the stone. It is one of the hundreds of sites grouped under UNESCO's listing of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Moratalla area is unusually rich in them. The paintings are small, faint to the untrained eye and protected, so the real value of coming is to understand the landscape that drew people here thousands of years ago: springs, shelter and game in rough, broken country.
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Fuensanta II sits at 176 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I.
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Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I comes up about 351 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cañada de la Cruz.
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Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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about 420 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cañada de la Cruz. Next is back through Abrigo del.melgar, 44 km on.
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Read the complete Abrigo del.melgar write-up.
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back through Abrigo del.melgar, late in the day. Next is Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda write-up.
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The route ends here after 615 km.
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda → Abrigo del.melgar is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del.melgar → Cañada de la Cruz is 145 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → Fuensanta II is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuensanta II → back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente de montañoz I → back through Cañada de la Cruz is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañada de la Cruz → back through Abrigo del.melgar is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del.melgar → Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.