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 Puértolas it runs 440 km to Puértolas; allow about 7 h 13 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Cueva de los moros. and back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 125 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Añisclo canyon is one of the deepest and narrowest in the Spanish Pyrenees, a cleft in the limestone of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, and the road that runs through its lower section is one of the most remarkable in Aragon. At its southern end, beside an old stone bridge over the Bellós river, stands the hermitage of San Úrbez, built half into the cliff, with a cave behind it where tradition says the saint lived as a hermit. Close by, rock shelters hold traces of prehistoric painting.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
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Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña comes up about 101 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de los moros., 69 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 226 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de los moros.. Next is back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Cueva de los moros. is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de los moros. → back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.