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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192 km from Alquézar to Alquézar, about 3 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: El Remosillo, Les Coves and back through El Remosillo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Somontano means under the mountain, and that is just what this district is: the rolling foothills of the Pyrenees below the Sierra de Guara, where the land opens from the stony gorges into a country of vineyards, almond groves and golden fields. The wine region of that name, around Barbastro, is one of the quiet success stories of Spanish viticulture, and its reds, whites and rosés are well worth carrying home. The Covacho de Labarta is six kilometres from Alquézar, in the hills that look down on the gorge of the Río Vero.
Read the complete Covacho de Labarta write-up.
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Covacho de Labarta is where the day begins. 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.
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El Remosillo comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach Les Coves. Next is back through El Remosillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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back through El Remosillo, late in the day. Next is Covacho de Labarta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho de Labarta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covacho de Labarta. That is the ride.
Covacho de Labarta → El Remosillo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → Les Coves is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Coves → back through El Remosillo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Remosillo → Covacho de Labarta is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.