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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475 km from Camarasa to Camarasa, about 8 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Les Coves, El Remosillo, Corral de la Gascona and Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. 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.
Above the village of Camarasa, where the Segre comes out of the pre-Pyrenean hills onto the plain of Lleida, a cave in the limestone holds some of the most interesting rock paintings in Catalonia. The Cova del Tabac, the tobacco cave, is a wide shelter with schematic paintings, simplified human figures, animals and symbols in red, and it is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of Mediterranean rock art on the Iberian Peninsula. A short walk leads up from the road to the shelter, which also offers a fine view over the valley, and on a clear day the Pyrenees rise white on the northern horizon.
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Cova del Tabac is where the day begins. Next is Les Coves.
The western edge of Catalonia, around Lleida, is fruit country. Irrigation canals bring water from the Pyrenean rivers to a broad, flat plain of orchards growing apples, pears and peaches, laid out in neat lines that stretch to the horizon. Les Coves lies in this area, close to the Aragonese border, between Alfarràs, Albelda and Algerri, where the valley of the Noguera Ribagorçana spills out of the hills and onto the plain.
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Les Coves comes up about 61 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.
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about 107 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. 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, about halfway. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
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.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña sits at 160 km, about halfway. Next is back through Corral de la Gascona.
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Read the complete Corral de la Gascona write-up.
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back through Corral de la Gascona comes up about 312 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through El Remosillo.
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Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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about 368 km into the recorded legs you reach back through El Remosillo. Next is back through Les Coves.
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Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
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back through Les Coves, late in the day. Next is Cova del Tabac.
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Read the complete Cova del Tabac write-up.
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The route ends here after 475 km.
Cova del Tabac → Les Coves is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Coves → El Remosillo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → Corral de la Gascona is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corral de la Gascona → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Corral de la Gascona is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 Les Coves is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Les Coves → Cova del Tabac is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.