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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469 km from Alquézar to Alquézar, about 8 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: El Remosillo, Les Coves, Cova del Tabac and Roques Guàrdies II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach Les Coves. Next is Cova del Tabac.
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.
Read the complete Cova del Tabac write-up.
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Cova del Tabac, about halfway. Next is Roques Guàrdies II.
Les Garrigues is the dry, stony corner of western Catalonia, south-east of Lleida, a land of low hills, terraced olive groves, almond trees and stone huts, where the light is hard and the summers are hot. Roques Guàrdies II is a rock shelter in these hills near Juneda and Arbeca, with traces of prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage site of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula.
Read the complete Roques Guàrdies II write-up.
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Roques Guàrdies II sits at 177 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cova del Tabac.
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Read the complete Cova del Tabac write-up.
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back through Cova del Tabac comes up about 304 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Les Coves.
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Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
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about 374 km into the recorded legs you reach back through 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.
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The route ends here after 469 km.
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 → Cova del Tabac is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova del Tabac → Roques Guàrdies II is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roques Guàrdies II → back through Cova del Tabac is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova del Tabac → back through Les Coves is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.