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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532 km from Estada to Estada, about 9 h 35 of riding. The stops in between: Corral de la Gascona, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Abrigo de Los Gitanos and Cueva de los moros.. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Corral de la Gascona.
Alquézar is one of the most dramatic villages in Spain: a cluster of ochre houses piled on a rocky spur above the canyon of the Vero river, crowned by a castle and a collegiate church built on the site of a Moorish fortress. It lies at the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in Aragon cut by deep canyons, and the area is famous across Europe for canyoning, with people abseiling, jumping and swimming through the narrow gorges in summer. The Corral de la Gascona is one of the rock-art sites in the Vero canyon and its surroundings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Corral de la Gascona write-up.
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Corral de la Gascona comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. 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.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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Abrigo de Los Gitanos, about halfway. Next is Cueva de los moros., 42 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.
Read the complete Cueva de los moros. write-up.
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Cueva de los moros. sits at 170 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
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Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos comes up about 337 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
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Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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about 401 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Corral de la Gascona.
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Read the complete Corral de la Gascona write-up.
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back through Corral de la Gascona, late in the day. Next is El Remosillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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The route ends here after 532 km.
El Remosillo → Corral de la Gascona is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corral de la Gascona → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 82 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. → back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 85 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 → back through Corral de la Gascona is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Corral de la Gascona → El Remosillo is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.