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 560 km round trip from Bonansa - roughly 10 h 33 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de Revilla, Cueva Peña Miel I, El Remosillo and Corral de la Gascona. 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 55 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.
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Cueva de Revilla comes up about 112 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva Peña Miel I.
The Sierra de Guara, in the province of Huesca, is a limestone range riddled with canyons, and the river Vero cuts one of the most beautiful of them, a deep, narrow gorge of grey and ochre cliffs where vultures nest and the water runs clear over pale stones. Along its walls, prehistoric people left paintings in dozens of rock shelters, and the Cueva Peña Miel I is one of them, part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Río Vero Cultural Park protects the area, with an interpretation centre in Colungo and guided visits to some of the shelters.
Read the complete Cueva Peña Miel I write-up.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva Peña Miel I. 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.
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El Remosillo, about halfway. 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.
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Corral de la Gascona sits at 191 km, about halfway. Next is back through El Remosillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through El Remosillo comes up about 332 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cueva Peña Miel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva Peña Miel I write-up.
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about 388 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cueva Peña Miel I. Next is back through Cueva de Revilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
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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.
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The route ends here after 560 km.
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 → Cueva Peña Miel I is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva Peña Miel I → El Remosillo is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → Corral de la Gascona is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corral de la Gascona → back through El Remosillo is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Remosillo → back through Cueva Peña Miel I is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva Peña Miel I → back through Cueva de Revilla is 54 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.