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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From Bielsa it runs 438 km to Bielsa; allow about 8 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of Cueva Peña Miel I, El Remosillo, Les Coves and Cova del Tabac. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 49 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
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Cueva de Revilla is where the day begins. Next is Cueva Peña Miel I.
The Sierra de Guara, in the province of Huesca, is a limestone range riddled with canyons, and the river Vero cuts one of the most beautiful of them, a deep, narrow gorge of grey and ochre cliffs where vultures nest and the water runs clear over pale stones. Along its walls, prehistoric people left paintings in dozens of rock shelters, and the Cueva Peña Miel I is one of them, part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Río Vero Cultural Park protects the area, with an interpretation centre in Colungo and guided visits to some of the shelters.
Read the complete Cueva Peña Miel I write-up.
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Cueva Peña Miel 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 108 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. 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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Les Coves, about halfway. 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 sits at 165 km, about halfway. Next is back through Les Coves.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
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back through Les Coves comes up about 285 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through El Remosillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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about 331 km into the recorded legs you reach back through El Remosillo. Next is back through Cueva Peña Miel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva Peña Miel I write-up.
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back through Cueva Peña Miel I, late in the day. Next is Cueva de Revilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
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The route ends here after 438 km.
Cueva de Revilla → Cueva Peña Miel I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva Peña Miel I → El Remosillo is 59 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 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova del Tabac → back through Les Coves is 61 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 → back through Cueva Peña Miel I is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva Peña Miel I → Cueva de Revilla is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.