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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511 km from Alquézar to Alquézar, about 8 h 48 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Forau del Cocho, 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.
On a clear day, from the high ground north of Alquézar, you can see the Pyrenees laid out like a wall, with snow on the crests until June and the long grey ridge of the Sierra de Guara in the foreground. Ereta de Litonares lies about three kilometres from the village, and the word ereta, a small threshing floor, hints at the open, level patches of rock and earth that farmers used to thresh grain in the wind. A threshing floor needs a breeze and a view, and so does anyone who wants to look at mountains.
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Ereta de Litonares 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 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Forau del Cocho. 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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Abrigo de Los Gitanos, about halfway. Next is Cueva de los moros., 47 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. sits at 190 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
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back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos comes up about 326 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Forau del Cocho.
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Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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about 384 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Forau del Cocho. 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 Ereta de Litonares.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ereta de Litonares write-up.
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The route ends here after 511 km.
Ereta de Litonares → 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 → Forau del Cocho is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 62 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 Forau del Cocho is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Forau del Cocho → back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Ereta de Litonares is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.