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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A 183 km round trip from Agüero - roughly 3 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de los moros., Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta and back through Cueva de los moros.. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The road north-west out of Huesca toward Pamplona runs along the foot of a dramatic wall of rock. To the north are the Pre-Pyrenean sierras, and studded along them are some of Aragón's most striking sights: the Castle of Loarre, a superbly preserved Romanesque fortress on a spur, and the Mallos de Riglos, huge red conglomerate towers rising straight out of the hillside. The rock shelter known as the Abrigo de los Gitanos lies in this country, between Ayerbe, Loarre and Luesia.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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Abrigo de Los Gitanos is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de los moros., 42 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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Cueva de los moros. comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta.
Aztaparreta is a beech forest that has been left alone. High in the Pyrenees of Navarre, at the head of the Roncal valley, in the karst massif of Larra-Belagua on the border with France, this forest has never been logged, and its trees, some of them centuries old, grow, die and decay naturally. It is one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a World Heritage Site that brings together beech forests from across the continent, from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees. Walking through it is like entering a cathedral, with tall grey trunks, a green canopy high above, and a thick carpet of moss and fallen leaves.
Read the complete Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta write-up.
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about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta. Next is back through Cueva de los moros., 42 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de los moros. write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de los moros., late in the day. Next is Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de Los Gitanos. That is the ride.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Cueva de los moros. is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de los moros. → Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta → back through Cueva de los moros. is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de los moros. → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.