CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Bárcabo it runs 193 km to Bárcabo; allow about 4 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Muriecho L, El Remosillo and back through Muriecho L. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Muriecho L.
The Somontano, the land at the foot of the mountains, is the soft belt of the Huesca province, where the high Pyrenees give way to rolling hills of vines, almonds and olives, and the Sierra de Guara rises like a wall to the north. Muriecho is a hamlet in that country, and the shelter that carries its name, Muriecho L, lies about five kilometres from Alquézar. It holds painting in the Levantine style, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and the ride links it with El Remosillo and Mascún V, other shelters in the canyons of the Guara.
Read the complete Muriecho L write-up.
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Muriecho L comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Remosillo.
If you ride north from Barbastro toward Graus, the Ésera river eventually forces its way through a ridge of limestone, and the result is the Congosto de Olvena, a short, deep gorge with the road squeezed between rock and water. Up on the cliffs around here are rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, and El Remosillo is one of the best known in this corner of Aragón, between Estadilla, Graus and Fonz.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. Next is back through Muriecho L.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Muriecho L write-up.
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back through Muriecho L, 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 → Muriecho L is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muriecho L → El Remosillo is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Muriecho L is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muriecho L → Abrigo de Arilla is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.