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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Casbas de Huesca it runs 180 km to Casbas de Huesca; allow about 3 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Corral de la Gascona, El Remosillo and back through Corral de la Gascona. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Chaves I is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Corral de la Gascona comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. Next is back through Corral de la Gascona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corral de la Gascona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Corral de la Gascona, late in the day. Next is 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 at Chaves I. That is the ride.
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 → El Remosillo is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Corral de la Gascona is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Corral de la Gascona → Chaves I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.