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 189 km round trip from Nueno - roughly 3 h 45 in the saddle. It goes by way of Chaves I, Corral de la Gascona and back through Chaves I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is where the day begins. Next is Chaves I.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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Chaves I comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Corral de la Gascona.
Alquézar is one of the most dramatic villages in Spain: a cluster of ochre houses piled on a rocky spur above the canyon of the Vero river, crowned by a castle and a collegiate church built on the site of a Moorish fortress. It lies at the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in Aragon cut by deep canyons, and the area is famous across Europe for canyoning, with people abseiling, jumping and swimming through the narrow gorges in summer. The Corral de la Gascona is one of the rock-art sites in the Vero canyon and its surroundings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Corral de la Gascona write-up.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Corral de la Gascona. Next is back through Chaves I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chaves I, late in the day. Next is 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 at Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. That is the ride.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Chaves I is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chaves I → Corral de la Gascona is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corral de la Gascona → back through Chaves I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chaves I → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.