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 196 km round trip from Estada - roughly 4 h 34 in the saddle. On the way it passes Muriecho E1, Abrigo de Arilla and back through Muriecho E1. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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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El Remosillo is where the day begins. Next is Muriecho E1.
The Sierra de Guara is the first big step of the Pyrenean foothills, a tumbled mass of limestone that has been cut into canyons so deep and narrow that people come from all over Europe to descend them with ropes. Muriecho is a tiny place on the southern fringe of the range, in the Somontano, the land at the foot of the mountain, and E1 is one numbered shelter of several recorded around it. The paintings belong to the Mediterranean-arc rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998, and this region of Huesca has some of the best examples in Aragon.
Read the complete Muriecho E1 write-up.
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Muriecho E1 comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Arilla.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a rough range of sandstone and limestone where rivers have cut deep, dark canyons that are among the best in Europe for canyoning. The Abrigo de Arilla lies in that country, well off the main roads, in the lonely hills between Alquézar and the Sierra, and is one of the rock shelters of the Río Vero cultural park. The paintings are mostly Levantine and schematic, thousands of years old, and are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. Reaching the shelters generally requires a walk, and regulations apply.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Arilla. Next is back through Muriecho E1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Muriecho E1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Muriecho E1, late in the day. Next is El Remosillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at El Remosillo. That is the ride.
El Remosillo → Muriecho E1 is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muriecho E1 → Abrigo de Arilla is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Arilla → back through Muriecho E1 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muriecho E1 → El Remosillo is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.