The stretch of the Mozarto Road between Alcaudete and Baena is a 25.4-kilometre journey between centuries-old olive groves before leaving the province of Jaén to reach Córdoba. With a moderate level of + 350 m and -250 m, this stage represents an accessible and attractive challenge for pilgrims, as they travel a mix of rural roads, streams and secondary roads.

The stage begins at the Plaza 28 de Feb. next to the City of Alcaudete. Another option is to start at the roundabout near the hospital, continuing on the N-432 towards Córdoba. Following the Jacobea signs, the tour will take us to the Zaide Source, an important point of reference.

From this fountain we will have beautiful views of the Castle of Alcaudete, located in its historic centre of medieval origin. We recommend that you visit it before leaving this municipality and enjoy its important architectural heritage, in which apart from the Castillo-Palacio de Alcaudete, you can find the Church of Santa María la Mayor, the Church of the Incarnation or of Carmen, the Church of San Pedro, the Convent and Church of Santa Clara and the Cemetery and Chapel of Santa Catalina among others.

Right after the Zaide Fountain we will find the starting point of the old road to Baena.

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Crossing an impressive centenary olive tree with large olive trees, the pilgrims will advance through this agricultural landscape to meet a small stream, usually with little flow. After crossing the stream, a cortijo will be left to the right and, shortly thereafter, a second stream will mark the beginning of a gradual ascent that will lead to the national road.

Once the N-432 has been reached, you should walk with caution through the left arm. At a crossroads with good visibility, we move to the right bow, at which time we will have crossed the Salado and San Juan rivers. From this point on, the union of both rivers is called the Guadajoz River. The road continues on a narrow path that will take us to an agricultural ship and, following the course between olive groves, will reach the Laguna del Salobral, a natural reserve that offers a visual rest in the meantime olive trees. Then the road will cross the route of the old railway known as "Train of Oil," a vestige of the industrial past of the area.

The descent to a stream leads to a secondary road, which the pilgrims will leave when they reach a cordial. Here, you take a path to the left that continues to soften among the olive groves. About 1 km from this detour, a house known as "El Barranco" will be on the right. The tour continues to cross another road to continue to face a track that crosses olive fields and leads up to an almazara, an unequivocal sign of the importance of the oil industry in this region.

After passing on the route of the N-432, the route enters Baena by the olive cooperative "Our Lady of Guadalupe." As pilgrims approach the urban core, they will notice the contrast between the rural environment and agricultural activity. Baena, known for its olive oil and historical heritage, offers several points of interest for pilgrims before continuing their journey to Córdoba.

CONCLUSION OF THE RECORRID

The stage between Alcaudete and Baena is a journey that combines the natural beauty of olive fields with the historical heritage of the region. At this stage, our tour of the Mozarto Road in the province of Jaén ends, continuing our tour of Córdoba until we reach Santiago de Compostela.

At this stage is the continuation of the Mozário Road of Granada, so that we will leave the granadine lands and enter the province of Jaén, with its landscape of endless extensions of olive trees. We will finish the day in Alcalá la Real, capital of the Sierra Sur region, located under a great fortress worth visiting.

On the street Real and the street Estas we will leave Moclin, passing by the Center of Commercial Interpretation, we go down about 700 m and we arrive at the Fuente de Malalto. At this point we left the asphalt and continued on a dirt lane leading to the road. We will turn left, extreme the caution during the 2 km tour before linking with the N-432, take a short path behind a house and cross the N-432 with caution.

When we cross, we take the royal canyon "Cordel de la Gallina." We ascend 400 m to the "Coto de los Pedernales." We're still on a lane until we get to a milestone. We must continue among the olive trees but the closest to a barranquera left to us, reaching a new lane we will follow to the left, and after a rise we will link with a particular road by accessing the cortijo "Cañada Alta."

We will continue to the right, we will return to the N-432, next to the San Antonio Oil Cooperative, we will continue to the left argon for 1 km, (HAY THAT I BE PRUDENT IN THIS KILOMETRO OF ARCEN), to turn left on a road that leads to Cequia, then to Pilillas and then to Ermita Nueva, we leave the village descending and straight, crossing the Palanaches stream, we continue on the Paseo de los Almondrales arriving to the N-432.

We get to some ships, it's the place to cross the N-432 with extreme care, once in the other arson we get diverted on a road to the right. Then when we reach a fork we will choose to the left, we will cross an old cortijo and at the next new fork we will also choose to the left, the lane will take us to cross a tunnel under a road, just after leaving the tunnel a lane to the right for bicycles and walkers will take us to a new crossing where a milestone points to the left. By going up the lane and across some vineyards we will arrive after passing a roundabout to the entrance on a path to the city. We will leave the bus station to the left and a long avenue will leave us in the park, city center.

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A pleasant stage, with a wavy profile but with no large slopes, which runs mostly on land roads between olive groves. In the equator of the same is Ventes del Carrizal, only intermediate town that has some service. We will end the day in the historic village of Alcaudete, which, as usual in these border lands, grew around the walls of its medieval castle, whose silhouette dominates the landscape.

It is part of the Plaza Pablo de Rojas de Alcalá la Real, we pass through Palacio Abacial (Point of Information to the pilgrim), continuing through the race of the Mercedes, to the street Tejuela. We leave the City of Mota on the street Camino Nuevo to link with the "Cordel de Córdoba a Guadix." At 1.5 km we find a small medieval bridge that crosses a stream and follows the old road, by which after 3 km we will reach the village of Puertollano.

We continue the "Vereda de Granada" parallel to the right of the N-432. We follow that path almost 4 km., we will find an underground passage, on a stream with pinets to cross it in times of rain, which allows us to cross the road to its left and follow the path until we reach Sales del Carrizal to which we enter by crossing a light. The Social Services Centre is an information point. We go down La Fuente Street and go down to the San Juan River, cross the bridge and turn immediately to the left, to follow the "Cañada Real de Fuente Amuña."

We continue in front of Alcaudete, we enter through Fountain Amuña. We go down the asphalt street about 600 m., we turn left and we reach the Sanctuary of La Fuensanta, we go down the park and we go left, on the roundabout we ascend right through the Avd. of Andalusia, to the City Hall Square.

In the town of Alcaudete there is a pilgrimage hostel on the Camino de Santa Catalina, where you can stay and take a well-deserved break to enjoy this wonderful municipality, with a wide variety of leisure and cultural services.

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This first stage of the GR 247.1 Variant unites two of the most emblematic small inhabited nuclei of the deep interior of the Natural Park, in the Sierra de Segura. The first is the village of Los Anchos and Prado Maguillo, and the second is the village of Arroyo Canales and Rio Madera.

They are isolated, lonely and surrounded by a very beautiful environment. The first, at the highest altitude, draw attention to the good conservation of popular architecture, of great simplicity and with an aesthetics fully integrated into the landscape. The Recreative Area of La Morringa, which is a very pleasant and shaded space with fountain and tables next to the River Madera, whose waters run manly between the riverside vegetation, stands out.

Most of the route runs through the forest track that runs through the Valley of Arroyo de las Tres Aguas, linking the valleys of Los Anchos and Río Madera through thick forests of pine laricio or salgareño. The Stage is short, and it is possible to chain it in the same day with one of the other steps of the Southern Forest Path with which it links, or with a stretch of them, but we recommend to do so without haste and to remain at any of the two ends of it, because they have left-over attractions for it.

A route to know endangered landscapes, this route crosses some of the most interesting forest masses of Sierra Magina, but also the mountain cerealist landscapes that remain hidden in this corner of Andalusia. It is a circular route that begins and ends in Cambil, so it can be done in both ways.

The path GR-7 is just over 300 km. of the province of Jaéngoing throughthree of the most important Sierras in the province:Sierra Sur, Sierra Magina and Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas. This is a stretch of this great road that runs through the European continent. It begins in Tarifa (Cadiz, Spain) and through Brussels (Belgium), it ends in Athens (Greece). As you pass through the province of Jaén, you will find a network of local, no less interesting, small tour trails.

The GR247is the largest hiking route in the largest natural space in Spain. The GR247 Forest of the South path offers you 478 km marked, along 21 main stages and 11 derivations to places of interest. The GR also has 3 variants, composed of two sections each, that will help you subdivide the layout, and make a version adapted to your interests and time available. You decide how to do it! Its tour will take you to the births of the Guadalquivir and Segura rivers, it will enter you by the mosaic of landscapes of this mountain: high mountain peaks, castles, forests, rivers and waterfalls, traditional roads, altiplanicies, villages and villages still inhabited, historical sets, olive groves and orchards. A great way to discover the flight of the broken bones, the cleanest waters, the conversation with the transhuman pastors, the way to live in the mountain villages..., a collection of experiences and the authenticity of the most extensive saws of Andalusia, await you on the verge of this road. Most of the stages start and end in places with basic services - sources, villages or villages, campsites and other accommodation, camping areas or near carts. Other sections have only emergency shelters, without services, built to provide these areas of the GR. It well plans your journey because some stages go through very remote places, without telephone coverage, often subject to high mountain conditions that can leave you isolated (snow, wind and low-zero temperatures in winter, or lack of water and permanent insolation in summer), so you must be informed of the conditions before you start the route; in addition to having enough of your breath. You decide where to start the road, how many steps you will make on this visit to the park, how to divide the walk or, if you prefer, dedicate all your holidays to the full tour. Never leave the route, always follow the rules of use of the GR and the shelters as well as the instructions of the natural park staff. It respects all the rules of protected space as you walk the path and use its equipment. Landscapes full of memory await the steps and the complicit look of the walker, in one of the most interesting natural spaces in southern Europe.

The site known as Cerrada del Utroo-Linarejos is an amazing natural work sculpted by the Guadalquivir in the limestone that surrounds it. The path is on foot, and it will allow you to appreciate the sharp rocks and objades created by water over hundreds of thousands of years. It is a charming walk where the labiérnago, the cornicabra, and the willow accompany you to one of the most photographed places in the Park: the "horse tail" or Cascada de Linarejos.

The Guadalquivir made this canyon narrow and deep, leaving some streams - like that of Linarej- hanging on the heights. When this stream is at the throat it forms the spectacular Cascade of Linarejos, which after standing in some pozas joins the Guadalquivir to descend to the valley.

The path is 1.6 km and on its circular route it surrounds the "Peñón del Lanchón" to return to the road in a pleasant walk of about 45 minutes.

In the final part of the road - just before returning to the asphalt - you reach a pine-resinero or black forest (Pinus pinaster) that was used to obtain the resin with which the water used to be made. In these trees you will see the furrows that the resineros opened to allow the exit of this sap.

We suggest:

• Observe the numerous rupicular birds that nest on the rocky wall in front of our path, as we pass the waterfall of Linarejos. You will see small species, such as the victor, the lone rocher or the white lavender, sharing space with much larger ones like the leonate vulture.

• Get to know the small town of Vadillo-Castril, where the old Rife sawmill was and today it is the home of two agencies of great importance for the Natural Park: the School of Forest Capataces and the Forest Defense Center.

LOCATION

In Cazorla take the Sierra road (A-319) until the crossing known as the Empalme del Valle. Turn right on the JF-7092 road and just before passing the bridge over the Guadalquivir River (4 km from the Empalme) begins the Cerrada del Utrero path.

This path will allow you to discover one of the most charming environments in the Las Villas mountains. It runs along the natural channel of the river Aguascebas Chico, where we will discover unusual and unexpected corners. Following him, on our right, we found fenced land of ancient crops and a small cortijo half-melting. This place is known as "Las Ramblillas." In the deep valley you can see the river Aguascebas Chico.

We deviate from the road, in order to see, upstream, a spectacular leap of water, with a large poza in its base, whose waters look an emerald green by the reflection of the lush vegetation surrounding it. Let us take our way back, to reach a small hill, with a very particular silhouette. It is the Paso del Aguartedo, place of impressive views towards the countryside.

The path is conditioned and low, with a serpentating route, on a steep and rocky slope. On our left we found a striking oquity - an ashtray - where the shepherds used to keep their cattle. Below we reach a small lookout, where the path is fork. We follow the one on the right, until we get back to the channel to contemplate the majestic cascade of the Osera, perhaps one of the highest and beautiful waterfalls of Andalusia.

We continue along the path marked, by the narrow and steep ravine, enjoying the multiple pozas of the channel, to a walkway that crosses the river and back the path to the Odera lookout. If at this point we continue along the road that goes parallel to the channel, we will reach the explanade of La Osera, place where the vehicles are left when it is accessed from Mogón.

For these wonderful places it is very easy to observe the flight of the leonate vulture. The real eagle is also present and, if we look well, we can even see the little perdicular eagle.

The Zumeta Valley, through which this route runs, is a true journey in time. By the river there have been settlements from the Neolithic to today. We will find archaeological sites, rock paintings, small castles and villages that are authentic ethnic museums in the open air. In them it is still easy to see their inhabitants doing work of other times.

The morphology of the land also tells us of the thousands of years in which water has been the artisan hand that has built the landscape. As we go down this road, the oak and pine trees make way for lush riverside forests.