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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354 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 7 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: El Remosillo, Muriecho E1, Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez and back through Muriecho E1. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 59 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Sierra de Guara is limestone country, and it behaves like it: the rivers have sliced through the rock in deep canyons, the villages sit on crags, and the sky is full of vultures. Cueva de Malifeto is in the foothills of the range, eleven kilometres from Alquézar, a village that grew up around a hilltop collegiate church above the gorge of the Río Vero. The name has a slightly sinister ring in Spanish, and shepherds in these hills have always had stories about odd and shadowy places.
Read the complete Cueva de Malifeto write-up.
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Cueva de Malifeto 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 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Muriecho E1.
The Sierra de Guara is the first big step of the Pyrenean foothills, a tumbled mass of limestone that has been cut into canyons so deep and narrow that people come from all over Europe to descend them with ropes. Muriecho is a tiny place on the southern fringe of the range, in the Somontano, the land at the foot of the mountain, and E1 is one numbered shelter of several recorded around it. The paintings belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998, and this region of Huesca has some of the best examples in Aragon.
Read the complete Muriecho E1 write-up.
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about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach Muriecho E1. Next is Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
The Añisclo canyon is one of the deepest and narrowest in the Spanish Pyrenees, a cleft in the limestone of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, and the road that runs through its lower section is one of the most remarkable in Aragon. At its southern end, beside an old stone bridge over the Bellós river, stands the hermitage of San Úrbez, built half into the cliff, with a cave behind it where tradition says the saint lived as a hermit. Close by, rock shelters hold traces of prehistoric painting.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
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Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez, about halfway. Next is back through Muriecho E1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Muriecho E1 write-up.
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back through Muriecho E1 sits at 161 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 299 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de Malifeto.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Malifeto write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de Malifeto closes the day.
Cueva de Malifeto → El Remosillo is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → Muriecho E1 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muriecho E1 → Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → back through Muriecho E1 is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muriecho E1 → back through El Remosillo is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Remosillo → Cueva de Malifeto is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.