The first part of the day runs along the road from the Vado del Fresno to the Achillos saw. The route leaves the asphalt track before the hill, past the kilometer pillar 16 (km. 9.3). The lantern of earth is attached to a pecuary path, the laundry of Fountain Mateo to Martos. Many crosses and bifurcations come to pass, but none of them offer any doubt as they are marked. At first, constant ups and downs occur, but soon the definitive descent to the Carrizal Sales begins. It is then passed next to the bathroom cortijo (km. 13,9), famous for the sulfurated waters that were flushing there. Later on a mountain known as Encina Hermosa is surrounded, where remains of an important Ibero-Roman enclosure remain.

Shortly before reaching the Vega, the lane that approaches one of the watchtowers that adorn the area is left to the right. Just before the bridge over the San Juan River the itinerary turns left and, along several kilometres, it walks the Vega of the river, along with the route of the Caliphate del Legado Andalusí. At the foot of Castillo de Locubín, the route is diverted (km. 23.1) to continue along the right bank of the river. After a short stretch by road, he takes the direction of El Nacimiento, where a handful of water-nurturing developments all over the valley. After the recreational area, the road fits between the chimallions of the Guadalcoton, and after repeated wadeos the climb to Charilla is undertaken.

Once the city centre has its strength, the route is moved to the left by a lane (km. 34) that borders the slopes of the Loma de San Marcos, ending at the doors of Alcalá la Real. During the two centuries of the Christian siege of the Nazi kingdom, these border lands served as a platform for harassment and skirmishes. Strongholds were raised in the villages, and in their strategic hills a whole chain of watchtowers or simple watchtowers that, as a way of advancing, were watching the enemy's movements. Along the wide-range of the San Juan River, up to 4 towers are counted; although some miraculously whole, they all retain the quiet serenity of those who have seen centuries of history. Anyone who is encouraged to approach his feet will have the opportunity to loot the same horizons, now covered with olive trees.

The avenue of Los Olivares then leads to the outskirts of the city, crosses the new circumvalation and follows from the front by an asphalt lane. In the next few miles it will be rolled through the vast olive countryside surrounding Martos. The route, always marked, does not give rise to any doubt. After leaving two other paved lanes on the left and crossing the tracks of the old oil rail, a crossing is reached (km. 5.3). Straight is beginning to descend to the Salado stream, and the impressive metal structure of the old oil train viaduct that saves the first ravine is seen. The route will do it a little later in a fenced way, after having crossed a stretch along the margins of the stream. There is no choice but to face a very steep slope, which is softened just by recrossing the railway platform.

In the next fork is thrown on the left to link, shortly after, with the road to Las Casillas (km. 8.7). For a little more than a kilometer it is circulated through the region that barely supports traffic. In the middle of a hill a dirt lane is taken to the right (km. 10), which after a short rewind descends in the direction of a quarry and immediately to the same foot of the castle Víboras, located on a sharp rocky promontory. To the left the lane leads to the Casillas bordering what in the future will be a reservoir. A wave of soft hills subject to strict olive geometry surrounds Martos. Beyond, these same loins are raised, the ravines are deepened and then the landscape is haunted.

The mountains of the Caracolera, of moderate opulence, and Achillos, of more sharp appearance, truncate the horizon to almost 1,500 meters. The obstinate olive trees roar their tops, while at their feet the oil route runs. The road first savors the sweetness of the jiennese countryside, then it is adventure through the ravine of the Salado and finally stops at the bitter serrano orographic wall.

At the entrance of Las Casillas is the post that indicates the beginning of the route. Following Francisco Molina Malonado Street, you can reach the Constitution Square. There, a street descends to the left and soon becomes a dirt lane that goes directly down to the Vega of the Víboras River. After having rolled about 400 meters per asphalt, you have to deviate (km. 2.2) and take on the right a track that starts next to a villa.

Later on, the path of the dam is left, also to the right. Soon after, the ruins of the Víboras castle are seen on the opposite side. After 3 kilometers, it flows into the former national (km. 10.7). Through its asphalt is the pedanía of the Venta Pantalones, the river Víboras is once again crossed and it begins to rise until it finds the dirt lane (km. 12.4) that links with the layout of the old Oil Train. The route is now headed for the site known as El Pontón, where you can admire a spectacular modernist viaduct that rises a few meters from a Roman stone bridge. The same way of the train goes back and there is a ruined foothold (km. 18,9). At this point you have to leave the railway platform to take a cash track, the street of the Carriles. First it crosses the old national and within 2 kilometers it flows into the district of Las Casillas. At a half-climb there is the detour (km. 23.6) that leads to a quarry and to the foot of the Víboras castle. There it continues along the left lane that with some strong repo ends at the entrance of the village.

The Jaén-Campo Real railway line saw the last train pass in 1984. After twelve years of abandonment the administration today wants to turn this forgotten iron road into a true green corridor, suitable for ecotourism. Along its 121 km the road passes through places of unique beauty, such as El Pontón, where through a bold viaduct it saves the skulls of the Víboras river. A few meters away, a raging Roman bridge puts a delicate counterpoint in the form of decimononic engineering.

The tour starts from the road crossing to Las Casillas and Villar Bajo with the road to the Amuña Fountain. Located a mile from the city centre. By the asphalt of the region, which is used to supporting little traffic, the rise of the Achillos saw begins. As you gain height, the panorama unfolds. Behind the back is Alcaudete with his imposing fortress and the monotonous olive countryside is seen in front. Before coronating the neckline and at the end of a metal fence, the road is left to the right (km. 6.7) by a forest road parallel to the fenced. At this point there is a drinking water source located in a ravine.

It is raised through a pine to a high and crossroads (km. 7.7). The bicycles continue in a slight descent to surround the Achillos saw. The magnificent views that will accompany during this stretch begin to unfold: the mountains of La Pandera and the Alta Coloma, to the south La Parapanda, are seen not unnoticed and, as a backdrop to these mountainous horizons, the white summits of Sierra Nevada. Below, the pine forest gives way to the olive tree that will already be constant to the end. Two lanes are left to the right, although the latter can be used as a shortcut. The route continues ahead and soon after it reaches a crossing (km. 11.8).

On the right hand side it saves a ravine and immediately after it starts to rise and then reaches the Vizcalmon mold. In this place the final down to Alcaudete is started, which is already seen between the edges of the olive trees. A traffic-free region, a forest track between pine trees and a rural road allow you to explore the contours of this sharp saw manly and enjoy your best prospects. From the beginning, the first views are revealed: a poniente is stretched the countryside to the hateful profile the cordobese subbetic. On the opposite side the landscape is collided between the pines and it is possible to recognize each of the picachos of the South Sierra: from the naked hills of the Alto de la Pandera to the docile top of La Martina, passing through the distant and repulsive Sierra Nevada. Already down, a little collar gives the keys to the last panoramic over Alcaudete.

From the road A-316 to Córdoba you take the region to the old station of Alcaudete, which soon after is abandoned (km 2,3) by a lane of land to the right. Just after coronating an altozane (km 3.2), a fork appears. To the right you start to descend with strong slopes and then lead to a crossing (km 4.8). The route then turns left and, past a ruined cortijo, links with the platform of the old Oil Train (km. 5.4). Its unmistakable layout, indifferent to the vicissitudes of the land, raises no doubt. Trinches and taludes occur before reaching the old Alcaudete station. A little later, the recently built autonomous road cuts the railway platform. It must be passed with caution to link with the tracks, which are now heading for the encounter of the Honda Lagoon. In winter the reserve gives shelter to a large number of aquatic birds.

The route continues along the road, however, next to a raft (10.8) it moves to the right and soon reaches the cortijo del Chinche, from where the second lagoon is already seen. Although it is smaller in size than the previous one, it also has anatides; the best way to observe them is from a lane that leaves to the left, past the cortijo. If you take the one on the right, soon after there is another crossing (km. 13.4) where from the front you will go to a road and immediately to the autonomous one.

To return to Alcaudete the best thing is to choose the region that goes up from the same station. The Honda and Chinche lagoons arise as by magic in the middle of the jiennese countryside. They are part of the Spanish Natural Wetlands Network; in 1989 they were declared Natural Reserves. They are seasonal lagoons, that is, in summer they dry and the autumn rains feed it, remaining flooded in winter and part of spring. The surrounding vegetation gives shelter to numerous aquatic birds; the royal anades, the elusive water cock or the common focal, which is recognized for its frequent immersions, usually visit it. Occasionally there comes the rare evil or even some small flock of flamingos that use it as a resting place for their migration trips.

Departing from Valdepeñas in the direction of Jaén starts (km 2), shortly after the gas station, an asphalt lane that rises with strong reels in its final stretch, to the port of the Coberteras (km 7.5). The explanade separates the challenging hills from the La Pandera saw from the Ventilquer summits. The asphalt ends at this point. The route now follows a gravel road that is slowly losing height by the blemish of the Ventilator covered with a dense tree vegetation. In the port Pitillos (km. 3.6) and just to strangle a barrier that prevents the passage to the motor vehicles, a long rise between lush pinears begins to the right.

As you gain height, the panoramas are being deployed, first on the quiet waters of the Quebrajano reservoir, and immediately as you change your side on the ravine of the river that feeds you and the deep cuts of the Alcabuces saw. After a mold of wires, the lane that descends to the Navalayegua ravine is left to the left, where an unusual tidal bosquet is located. The most difficult sections of the route that will almost certainly force you to stand on the ground by both the slope and the stones, end up coronating another hill. Very close, there is a semi-abandoned cortijo surrounded by beautiful and long specimens of oak. It only remains to overcome the last rise that will culminate in the port of Navalayegua (km. 21.9).

On the hill the descent begins through the ravine of the Vadillo stream, which dies in the same town. The Ventilquer saw is a strong calcareous massif, on its arrogant slopes an almost wild vegetation survives extraordinarily pure. The oaks and complaints dominate the arboreal stratum and the accompanying shrubs sometimes become very dense. On its southern side, semi-hidden in the narrow of a ravine, there is a community of old tides, true relic of the past. The purely serrana route draws the essence of these rough landscapes.

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.

The route goes through Fries on the bottom. Once outside the city centre a fork appears (km. 1.9). Both roads lead to Valdepeñas de Jaén, but will be chosen by the one on the right. The first meters pass through the river's Vega. Immediately the sodomy pedal ends and must face the first rise, with some rather steep ramps. Once left behind the cortijos of Los Rosales, the first collar is reached (km 5.5). At this point you must continue to face them and ignore them two ways on the right, to descend without loss to a wading stream.

The tour again gains height to the cortijos of Cerezo Gordo. Immediately and after a short fall, the next rise begins which, despite being long, does not present the previous hard slopes. At the beginning of the slope (km. 11.2) the zigzagueante lane leading to Noalejo is left to the right. The asphalt ends next to a ruined cortijo. Soon after you reach the Pinatero port (km. 13.2), located at the foot of the Los Nevazos peak, the tip of the Trigo saw.

The route continues straight along the widest road and, as it is losing height, discovers the beautiful valley where the cortijo de La Fresnedilla is located. After having stranded the fourth hill, it descends to the hole of the Carboneros, locked between impressive flashes. Its meadows and creek invite a break before the last climb. They must save almost 200 meters, but once they have been overcome, it awaits a rapid descent that ends in Valdepeñas de Jaén.

The tormented orography of the South Sierra has stopped the widespread invasion of agriculture and within it there are hardly any population nuclei beyond some lonely agonic cortijos. In contrast, the natural environment has managed to remain in an almost wild state. In fact, the Mediterranean forest and bush cover 30% of the surface and grazing is still the essential activity. A secular way of life is located in the depths of the saw and it runs its most remote corners on an accidental journey to the encounter of areas still unknown.

In Fuensanta de Martos is taken the Castillo de Locubín road. First the height of the Bermejo Port is crowned, and immediately it descends to the Regüelo stream and the cords of the same name. After a series of slides, the route was moved on the left (km. 9.7) after a small almazara. The dirt lane descends into a ravine, crosses it and begins to remount a slope.

When you reach a crossing (km. 11.7), you should continue to climb right. In the next one, turn right again. The rise ends in a flare where another cortijo is located. From there the lane will remain almost half-hillside, offering beautiful perspectives on the river Grande. After leaving aside an era that serves as a lookout, it begins to lose height. The back lane is immediately left to the right and finally it is connected on an asphalt road (km. 16.1). There he goes on the left in the direction of the Hermitage of the Christ of the Chircal, which well deserves a visit.

Then you must go back to the river (km. 18.2) by a lane that goes down to the site known as the Junta de los Rios, in the confluence of the river with the Arroyo de los Cortesos. It is worth getting off the bike and walking the closed one, or getting close by the sidewalk that starts next to the old light factory, to the waterfall that hides the stream. The lane is bound to the river, jelated by a lush vegetation that provides freshness to its riverside. In 4 kilometers, it flows into the road of Fuensanta de Martos, which is taken to the right.

In the Alta Coloma saw are born countless rivers and streams. The largest of them is the Great River that downstream changes its name to the most virulent Vipers. Its impetuous waters have carved a beautiful river canyon where waterfalls are chained, closed, fast, leaps and pods that invite you to explore these beautiful and intimate areas. At the freshness of the riverside lies a lush gallery forest, alamos, milling, willows and mimberas, with discipline the channel.

In the spring, their welcoming fronts give shade to the rosemary who come to pay tribute to the Chircal Christ, in the hermitage of the same name.

The road that leads to La Pandera, which is accessed from the road A-6.050 Jaén-Valdepeñas de Jaén-Castillo de Locubín, through a detour to the left located at the point of 24,500, is an asphalt and narrow itinerary built to access the military facilities at its top. In recent years it has become a forced quote from La Vuelta Ciclista to Spain, being considered as one of the mountain queen stages. For the first 3 km. We are accompanied by the typical landscape of the Mediterranean forest, with plenty of shrubs splashed by oak trees.

When you reach a quarry, the first important ramps appear, with slopes about 15% changing the vegetation as the altitude rises: lavender, thyme, aulagas, thorn, rosemary, cardo... The road, even in the dark, is becoming more and more difficult and offers the cycloturist the first landscape panorama. The environment is gradually becoming more arid, but the visual basin is greatly expanded and the views of Los Villares, Valdepeñas de Jaén or the capital itself, surrounded by olive fields, are impressive.