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 199 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 4 h 37 in the saddle. The stops in between: Viñamala I, El Remosillo and back through Viñamala I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Sierra de Guara is the first big wrinkle of the Pyrenees north of Huesca, a block of limestone sliced into deep canyons by rivers like the Vero, the Alcanadre and the Mascún, and the Cueva de Pacencia sits in that broken country. The shelters along the Vero hold prehistoric paintings in several styles, from the lively Levantine hunters to much more abstract schematic signs, and they are part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The area is managed as the Río Vero Cultural Park, with an interpretation centre in Colungo and guided visits to the best-preserved shelters, which is the sensible way to see them.
Read the complete Cueva de Pacencia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de Pacencia is where the day begins. Next is Viñamala I.
Alquézar is the village everyone photographs in the Sierra de Guara, a cluster of golden-stone houses on a rocky spur above the Vero river, crowned by a collegiate church that began life as a castle. The Muslim rulers of Barbastro built a fortress here, and in the eleventh century, King Sancho Ramírez of Aragón captured it and turned it into a base for the reconquest of the plain below. The church that now stands on the site, with its Romanesque and later Gothic features, preserves some of the old walls, and the view from the terrace across the canyon is worth the climb.
Read the complete Viñamala I write-up.
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Viñamala I comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. Next is back through Viñamala I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Viñamala I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Viñamala I, late in the day. Next is Cueva de Pacencia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Pacencia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de Pacencia. That is the ride.
Cueva de Pacencia → Viñamala I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Viñamala I → El Remosillo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Viñamala I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Viñamala I → Cueva de Pacencia is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.