CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 406 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 6 h 45 in the saddle. On the way it passes Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, Cueva de los moros. and back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 70 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The most common name for a cave in the Spanish countryside is not the name of a saint or a landowner but the Cueva de los Moros, the Moors' Cave, and the Vero valley is full of them. When people did not know who had painted an overhang or dug a hollow in the rock, they said it was the work of the Moors, who left the peninsula in the fifteenth century but whose memory remained as a catch-all for the mysterious past. Buried treasures, enchanted princesses and secret passages feature in the tales, and several caves on these routes carry the name. Huerto Raso I, five kilometres from Alquézar, belongs to the real painted tradition, though, and not the legendary one.
Read the complete Huerto Raso I write-up.
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Huerto Raso I is where the day begins. Next is Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Monte Perdido, the lost mountain, at 3,355 metres, is the highest limestone massif in Europe and the centrepiece of a cross-border World Heritage site shared by Spain and France. On the Spanish side, it gives its name to the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, with deep canyons radiating out from the summit; on the French side, it looks down on the great cirques of Gavarnie and Troumouse.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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Pyrénées - Mont Perdu comes up 79 km in. Next is Cueva de los moros., 79 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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158 km in you reach Cueva de los moros.. Next is back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, late in the day. Next is Huerto Raso I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huerto Raso I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Huerto Raso I. That is the ride.
Huerto Raso I → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Cueva de los moros. is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de los moros. → back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Huerto Raso I is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.