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 Bonansa it runs 514 km to Bonansa; allow about 9 h 21 of riding. It goes by way of Cueva de Revilla, Cueva Peña Miel I, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Cueva Peña Miel I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 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 55 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
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Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció 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.
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Cueva de Revilla comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 157 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva Peña Miel I. 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.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, about halfway. 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 sits at 221 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 405 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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.
Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció closes the day.
Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció → Cueva de Revilla is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de Revilla → Cueva Peña Miel I is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva Peña Miel I → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 99 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Cueva Peña Miel I is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva Peña Miel I → back through Cueva de Revilla is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de Revilla → Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.