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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
224 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 4 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Chaves I, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Chaves I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Chaves I.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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Chaves I comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 111 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Chaves I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chaves I, late in the day. 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.
Back at Cueva de Malifeto. That is the ride.
Cueva de Malifeto → Chaves I is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chaves I → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Chaves I is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chaves I → Cueva de Malifeto is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.