Route de la Sierra (De Valdepeñas de Jaén a Frailes)
Description
The Valdepeñas-Fráiles stage, belonging to the Path of Great Tour of the Sierra Sur de Jaén, begins its tour in the Park of Chorrillo. After a short stretch of urban soil, we arrived at one of the natural exits of the village on the way to Fries.
Datos de la ruta
ROUTE NAME
Ruta de la Sierra (De Valdepeñas de Jaén a Frailes)
TRAIL TYPE
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DIFFICULTY
Alta
TOTAL DISTANCE (IN KILOMETERS) 31 km
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Stretch of asphalt or concrete: --
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Section of track, forest road, or dry watercourse: --
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Trail section: --
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Sections of livestock trails: --
HUSO 30S
ESTIMATED TRAVEL TIME
4 h
ROAD SURFACE TYPE
Road
ELEVATION CHANGE
915mm
915mm
DIFFICULTY. RATING ACCORDING TO THE MIDE METHOD
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MEANS
Severity of the natural environment
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ITINERARY
Route guidance
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DISPLACEMENT
Difficulty moving about
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EFFORT
Amount of effort required
ACCESSIBILITY TYPE
TIME OF YEAR
All year round
SIGNALING
No
MORE INFORMATION
TUNNELS
STEEL VIADUCTS
METAL WALKWAYS
WATER POINTS
PONTOONS
GUARD BOOTHS AND BARRIERS
SWITCHMAN'S CABINS
CYCLABILITY
RECREATIONAL OR SPORTS AREAS NEAR THE TRAIL
AID STATIONS
LINKS TO OTHER TRAILS
SHELTERS
RECOMMENDATIONS
Although there is no technical difficulty, a minimum physical form is required to overcome some hard slopes. Any time of the year is good, in September you can attend the ritual of the deer's berrhea. It is not allowed to leave the way through the estate. In the km. 9.6 is passed very close to a hive, you will have to be careful.
OTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST (ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORICAL-CULTURAL, GEOLOGICAL-ECOLOGICAL)
Technical Description
Next to the football field of Valdepeñas de Jaén, located in the upper part of the village, it starts the land lane leading to Frailes. Just after you started pedaling, you face the first rise of the day that will not give up until after a cortijo. At the beginning of the downhill, just at the vertex of a curve (km. 4.4), you have to leave the lane and take the one that continues from the front. Soon the fencing that delimits the estate Solana Los Morales appears. The porch remains open during the day and as indicated by the panels you cannot leave the way throughout the journey.
After reassembling a loin it gets out of the hunting ground. The route continues to face two crosses and to the left in a fork. Finally it flows into a vast cerealist plain known as the Llanos of the Angel. At this point it takes to the left the road of Fries, and a kilometer later (km. 11.4) opts for the asphalt lane on the right that goes up in zigzag. From the hill it descends to the legendary Hoya de Charilla. The lane now surrounds the saw of the Shoulder and adapts to its marinated orography. Then a rosary of ups - some short but with very steep ramps - begins that end in false hills, until the arrival in Charilla. The route enters the village on Prado Street. In the square (km. 22.7) it turns left and leaves it on Fountain Street. The first lane goes down, then clings to a stream and immediately reaches a crossing (km. 26.1). You have to turn left. After 5 kilometers of constant ups and downs, Frailes is seen.
The difficult orography of the Sierra Sur is to go into a little-known mountain area, away from the great circuits, but of extraordinary beauty and great natural value. Its sinuous valleys, strong hills and warm holes seduce. Also in this silent serrania, the solages arrove unique legends such as that of the Serena of the Fountain of the Sotillo and give life to a popular religiosity halfway between mysticism and magic, that of the saints and healers. A magic saw in every way.
