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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Bárcabo it runs 261 km to Bárcabo; allow about 4 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Cueva de Pacencia, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Cueva de Pacencia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Fajana is an old word for a strip of cultivated ground on a slope, a terrace in effect, and the Fajana de Pera Superior is presumably the upper strip of a farm called Pera. The shelter lies about five kilometres from Alquézar in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara, among old field boundaries that have been taken back by oak and box. It belongs to the rock art of the Vero, listed by UNESCO in 1998 as part of the Mediterranean arc, and carries the usual faint red marks of hunters and animals.
Read the complete Fajana de Pera Superior write-up.
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Fajana de Pera Superior is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de Pacencia.
The Sierra de Guara is the first big wrinkle of the Pyrenees north of Huesca, a block of limestone sliced into deep canyons by rivers like the Vero, the Alcanadre and the Mascún, and the Cueva de Pacencia sits in that broken country. The shelters along the Vero hold prehistoric paintings in several styles, from the lively Levantine hunters to much more abstract schematic signs, and they are part of the UNESCO Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The area is managed as the Río Vero Cultural Park, with an interpretation centre in Colungo and guided visits to the best-preserved shelters, which is the sensible way to see them.
Read the complete Cueva de Pacencia write-up.
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Cueva de Pacencia 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.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Cueva de Pacencia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Pacencia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de Pacencia, late in the day. Next is Fajana de Pera Superior.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fajana de Pera Superior write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fajana de Pera Superior. That is the ride.
Fajana de Pera Superior → Cueva de Pacencia is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Pacencia → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Cueva de Pacencia is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de Pacencia → Fajana de Pera Superior is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.