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 Úbeda it runs 503 km to Úbeda; allow about 10 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo del.melgar, Cañada de la Cruz, Cortijo de la Rosa 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 was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the middle of an ocean of olive trees, Úbeda rises on a ridge like a Renaissance city that took a wrong turn on its way to Florence. This town in the province of Jaén, along with its neighbour Baeza, was listed by UNESCO in 2003 for its sixteenth-century architecture, much of it the work of Andrés de Vandelvira, who built palaces, churches and chapels for wealthy noble families and royal officials. The Plaza Vázquez de Molina is the showpiece, a harmonious square lined with palaces and the extraordinary Sacra Capilla del Salvador, a funerary chapel built for Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Emperor Charles V.
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Úbeda is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del.melgar, 46 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 Cortijo de la Rosa.
A cortijo is a farm in the Andalusian style, a cluster of whitewashed buildings around a yard, and the one named for La Rosa stands in the mountains of the Sierra del Segura, where Albacete, Murcia and Jaén meet. The shelter nearby, one of the many in the Nerpio district, lies about twelve kilometres from the village of Nerpio and a good deal farther from anything else. It carries paintings of the old Levantine kind, protected by UNESCO as part of the Mediterranean rock art of Spain, and the ride links it with another site at Benizar, in the Moratalla district across the border in Murcia.
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Cortijo de la Rosa, about halfway. 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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back through Cañada de la Cruz sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del.melgar, 46 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del.melgar write-up.
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back through Abrigo del.melgar comes up about 435 km into the recorded legs. Next is Úbeda.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Úbeda write-up.
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Úbeda closes the day.
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 → Cortijo de la Rosa is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cortijo de la Rosa → back through Cañada de la Cruz is 60 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 → Úbeda is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.