Antonio J. Calero, known in the motorcycle world as Antonio Pureblood, has been passionate about motorcycles since childhood, as well as gastronomy, culture, and travel, meticulously planning each trip to make the most of it from his early days in the motorcycling scene.This book is the product of the passion of some bikers who, with spirit and effort want to make their Andalusian home known to you and to make it easier for those of you, who decide to come and visit.
Giving you a tool to easily organise your trip, following a well-established route or so you may ride it in your own desired way, according to your tastes, wants and needs.
If and when you ride the Great Andalusian Route, you will discover some of the tourist Andalusia, you know, the most well-known. However, you would also discover the inland Andalusia, the real Andalusia, its villages, its noble people, and its mountain landscapes. This is where that essence of a very welcoming and beautiful land is to be truly found. A land through which many civilizations have passed, due to its unbeatable strategic location, and who have left part of their own legacy that continues to the present day.
We want ‘the biker to enjoy not only the stops or places where they spend the night, but also, the route, every curve, every road between pine forests or cork oaks, every landscape, the different parts through which the route takes you, etc.
A whole new world opens up to the biker when doing this route, the route that passes through and over mountain areas, to the highest mountain in the Iberian Peninsula, The Sierra Nevada. To the area with the highest rainfall in Spain, Grazalema, and also the driest in Europe, the deserts of Tabernas. To the largest and most important wetland in the south of this continent, the Doñana National Park, and to cities that are World Heritage Sites, such as: Úbeda, Baeza and Córdoba, which was the first city in the world to have been declared a World Heritage Site. Along the only navigable river in Spain, the Guadalquivir, which you will cross on a barge. Through the province with the most castles in Europe; Jaén, for its coasts that are bathed by two seas, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, and etcetera.
That said, I hope and wish that you too will enjoy Andalusia, as much as we have done preparing this, The Great Andalusian Route.
And, as I often say: Travel, travel, travel my friends! And if it’s on a motorbike, much better!