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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
202 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 3 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Chaves I, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Chaves I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Alquézar sits on a rock above the Vero river like a village in a children's book, with a golden collegiate church crowning the hill and houses stacked beneath it. About five kilometres from here, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, the sandstone and limestone cliffs hold small shelters with prehistoric paintings, and Fajana de Casabón is one of them. The painted shelters of the Vero valley are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998.
Read the complete Fajana de Casabón write-up.
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Fajana de Casabón is where the day begins. Next is Chaves I.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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Chaves I comes up about 43 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Chaves I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chaves I, late in the day. Next is Fajana de Casabón.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fajana de Casabón write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fajana de Casabón. That is the ride.
Fajana de Casabón → Chaves I is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chaves I → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Chaves I is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chaves I → Fajana de Casabón is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.