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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333 km from Alquézar to Alquézar, about 5 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: El Remosillo, Les Coves, Cova del Tabac and back through Les Coves. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The name suggests a spring and a trout, and you can hold on to the idea of water even if the shelter itself is dry. The Cueva de la Fuente de Trucho is one of the rock shelters that the archaeologists place in the Vero valley, two and a half kilometres from Alquézar, and it belongs with the painted overhangs of the Iberian Mediterranean arc that UNESCO recognised in 1998. Springs matter in this part of Aragon, which is dry for most of the year, and prehistoric people came to places like this for the same reason that modern walkers do: water, shade and a view.
Read the complete Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho write-up.
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Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho 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.
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El Remosillo comes up about 55 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 101 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 back through Les Coves.
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Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
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back through Les Coves sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through El Remosillo.
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Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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back through El Remosillo comes up about 278 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho write-up.
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Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho closes the day.
Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho → El Remosillo is 55 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 → 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 → Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.