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 435 km round trip from Alquézar - roughly 7 h 27 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cueva de Revilla, Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció and back through Cueva de Revilla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 107 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Covacho is the Aragonese word for a small cave or overhang, and Palluala is one of the hillside patches near Alquézar that carry the old farming names of the valley. The shelter, a mere kilometre and a bit from the village, is probably the nearest to it of all the painted rocks on this list, which means you can leave the motorbike in the village and walk instead of making a project of it. As with its neighbours it belongs to the Levantine rock art of the Spanish Mediterranean, listed by UNESCO in 1998.
Read the complete Covacho de Palluala write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Covacho de Palluala 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.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
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Cueva de Revilla comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció.
Valleys in the high Pyrenees of Catalonia and Aragon are full of small Romanesque churches, and the area around the Alta Ribagorça is among the richest. They were built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries by craftsmen working in what is called the Lombard style, with plain stone walls, round arches and tall, slender bell towers decorated with blind arcades, and they stand in villages that often have only a few houses.
Read the complete Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció write-up.
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about 215 km into the recorded legs you reach Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció. Next is back through Cueva de Revilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de Revilla, late in the day. Next is Covacho de Palluala.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho de Palluala write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Covacho de Palluala. That is the ride.
Covacho de Palluala → Cueva de Revilla is 107 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Revilla → Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció → back through Cueva de Revilla is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cueva de Revilla → Covacho de Palluala is 113 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.