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 377 km round trip from Bonansa - roughly 7 h 10 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de Revilla, Arpán E 2 and back through Cueva de Revilla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 72 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
There are nine churches in the Vall de Boí listed by UNESCO, and the surprise is that they are not museum pieces. They stand in working villages, with cows in the lanes, firewood stacked against the walls and the bells still ringing, and together they make one of the best-preserved groups of Romanesque churches in Europe. Sant Climent and Santa Maria de Taüll, the pair that everyone comes for, stand a few hundred metres apart on the hillside above the Noguera de Tor, and they were consecrated within a day of each other in December 1123. The others, in Boí, Erill la Vall, Cardet, Durro, Barruera and Coll, are quieter but each has a character of its own.
Read the complete Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de write-up.
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Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de Revilla.
Revilla is one of the most spectacularly placed hamlets in the Spanish Pyrenees, perched on a ledge above the Garganta de Escuaín, a deep gorge cut into the limestone of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. It looks down into the canyon from a terrace of meadows, with the high peaks behind. The Cueva de Revilla is a cave in the cliffs near the hamlet, and the area between Bielsa, Plan and Boltaña is some of the wildest country in Aragón.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
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Cueva de Revilla comes up about 112 km into the recorded legs. Next is Arpán E 2.
The Río Vero is not a big river, but it has spent a very long time doing something clever with the limestone of the Sierra de Guara. Above Alquézar it has cut a gorge that narrows to a few metres in places and widens again into pools the colour of bottle glass, and the plateau on both sides is a dry country of box, holm oak and aromatic scrub that bears almost no relation to the water below. Arpán is a small side-valley three kilometres from the village, a short walk off the road, and its shelter is one of several in the Vero canyon system that carry painted figures from the ancient hunters of the Levantine tradition.
Read the complete Arpán E 2 write-up.
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about 184 km into the recorded legs you reach Arpán E 2. Next is back through Cueva de Revilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de Revilla, late in the day. Next is Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de. That is the ride.
Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de → Cueva de Revilla is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de Revilla → Arpán E 2 is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Arpán E 2 → back through Cueva de Revilla is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de Revilla → Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.