CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Bárcabo it runs 548 km to Bárcabo; allow about 7 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, Cueva de los moros. and back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 87 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a rough range of sandstone and limestone where rivers have cut deep, dark canyons that are among the best in Europe for canyoning. The Abrigo de Arilla lies in that country, well off the main roads, in the lonely hills between Alquézar and the Sierra, and is one of the rock shelters of the Río Vero cultural park. The paintings are mostly Levantine and schematic, thousands of years old, and are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. Reaching the shelters generally requires a walk, and regulations apply.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
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Abrigo de Arilla is where the day begins. Next is Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Monte Perdido, the lost mountain, at 3,355 metres, is the highest limestone massif in Europe and the centrepiece of a cross-border World Heritage site shared by Spain and France. On the Spanish side, it gives its name to the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, with deep canyons radiating out from the summit; on the French side, it looks down on the great cirques of Gavarnie and Troumouse.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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Pyrénées - Mont Perdu comes up 75 km in. Next is Cueva de los moros., 75 km on.
There is a Cueva de los Moros in half the valleys of Spain. Every unexplained cave, ruin or rock shelter used to be credited to the Moors, and this one, in the hills of the western Aragonese Pyrenees between the valleys of Hecho and Ansó, is a rock shelter with ancient traces. You should approach it as an excuse to spend time in two of the most beautiful and least spoiled valleys of the Pyrenees, rather than as a monument.
Read the complete Cueva de los moros. write-up.
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150 km in you reach Cueva de los moros.. Next is back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de Arilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de Arilla. That is the ride.
Abrigo de Arilla → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Cueva de los moros. is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de los moros. → back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Abrigo de Arilla is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.