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 467 km round trip from Estada - roughly 9 h 15 in the saddle. The stops in between: Muriecho E1, Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez, Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de and back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 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 59 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
The Añisclo canyon is one of the deepest and narrowest in the Spanish Pyrenees, a cleft in the limestone of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, and the road that runs through its lower section is one of the most remarkable in Aragon. At its southern end, beside an old stone bridge over the Bellós river, stands the hermitage of San Úrbez, built half into the cliff, with a cave behind it where tradition says the saint lived as a hermit. Close by, rock shelters hold traces of prehistoric painting.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 118 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez. Next is Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de.
There are nine churches in the Vall de Boí listed by UNESCO, and the surprise is that they are not museum pieces. They stand in working villages, with cows in the lanes, firewood stacked against the walls and the bells still ringing, and together they make one of the best-preserved groups of Romanesque churches in Europe. Sant Climent and Santa Maria de Taüll, the pair that everyone comes for, stand a few hundred metres apart on the hillside above the Noguera de Tor, and they were consecrated within a day of each other in December 1123. The others, in Boí, Erill la Vall, Cardet, Durro, Barruera and Coll, are quieter but each has a character of its own.
Read the complete Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de write-up.
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Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez sits at 220 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 408 km into the recorded legs. 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.
El Remosillo closes the day.
El Remosillo → Muriecho E1 is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muriecho E1 → Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de → back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → back through Muriecho E1 is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muriecho E1 → El Remosillo is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.