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 453 km round trip from Alquézar - roughly 8 h 04 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Abrigo de Los Gitanos, Cueva de los moros. and Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Barely five hundred metres from the centre of Alquézar, the Cueva Palomera takes its name from the doves that nested in it, a palomera being a dovecote. That makes it the closest of all the painted shelters on this list to a village, and the easiest to fit into a day of riding. The cave is among the sites catalogued in the Vero valley and falls within the UNESCO listing of the Mediterranean rock art of the Iberian Peninsula. Whether any paintings are visible, and whether the cave is open to visitors, you should check locally, because access rules change.
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Cueva Palomera is where the day begins. 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.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
The road north-west out of Huesca toward Pamplona runs along the foot of a dramatic wall of rock. To the north are the Pre-Pyrenean sierras, and studded along them are some of Aragón's most striking sights: the Castle of Loarre, a superbly preserved Romanesque fortress on a spur, and the Mallos de Riglos, huge red conglomerate towers rising straight out of the hillside. The rock shelter known as the Abrigo de los Gitanos lies in this country, between Ayerbe, Loarre and Luesia.
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about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Los Gitanos. Next is Cueva de los moros., 45 km on.
There is a Cueva de los Moros in half the valleys of Spain. Every unexplained cave, ruin or rock shelter used to be credited to the Moors, and this one, in the hills of the western Aragonese Pyrenees between the valleys of Hecho and Ansó, is a rock shelter with ancient traces. You should approach it as an excuse to spend time in two of the most beautiful and least spoiled valleys of the Pyrenees, rather than as a monument.
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Cueva de los moros., about halfway. Next is Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta.
Aztaparreta is a beech forest that has been left alone. High in the Pyrenees of Navarre, at the head of the Roncal valley, in the karst massif of Larra-Belagua on the border with France, this forest has never been logged, and its trees, some of them centuries old, grow, die and decay naturally. It is one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a World Heritage Site that brings together beech forests from across the continent, from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees. Walking through it is like entering a cathedral, with tall grey trunks, a green canopy high above, and a thick carpet of moss and fallen leaves.
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Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta sits at 179 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de los moros., 44 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de los moros. write-up.
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back through Cueva de los moros. comes up about 261 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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about 318 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos. Next is back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, late in the day. Next is Cueva Palomera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva Palomera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 453 km.
Cueva Palomera → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Cueva de los moros. is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de los moros. → Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta → back through Cueva de los moros. is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de los moros. → back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos → back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Cueva Palomera is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.