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 434 km round trip from Alquézar - roughly 7 h 22 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 106 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Alquézar takes its name from the Arabic for the fortress, al-qasr, and the name fits: a hill of honey-coloured rock above the Vero, crowned by a castle and a church, with a tangle of arcaded lanes tumbling down below. The Cueva de Regacens lies about eight hundred metres from the village, a shelter in the limestone that carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. It is one of the closest sites to a village of any on these rides, which makes it an easy and pleasant walk, though the paintings are small and faded.
Read the complete Cueva de Regacens write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de Regacens 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de Revilla comes up about 106 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 214 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 Cueva de Regacens.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Regacens write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de Regacens. That is the ride.
Cueva de Regacens → Cueva de Revilla is 106 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 → Cueva de Regacens is 113 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.