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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 106 km round trip from Alquézar - roughly 1 h 50 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mascún V, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Mascún V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
In the late eleventh century, Alquézar was a frontier fortress, and its walls were the front line of a long war. The Muslim rulers of the Ebro valley held the castle as part of a defensive chain against the Christian kingdom of Aragon, until King Sancho Ramírez captured it around 1067 and made it a base for the conquest of Barbastro and the plains beyond. The name itself comes from the Arabic for castle, and the church that was built on the rock, the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor, took over the castle's commanding position.
Read the complete Litonares L write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Litonares L is where the day begins. Next is Mascún V.
The Barranco de Mascún is one of the great canyons of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in the pre-Pyrenees of Huesca, where rivers have carved deep, narrow gorges, caves and towers into the rock. The canyon, near the village of Rodellar, is famous among climbers for its overhanging walls and among canyoners for its pools and waterfalls, and it also holds traces of prehistoric painting in its shelters. Mascún V is one of these sites, part of the group of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO, and the setting, with sheer orange and grey walls rising above the river, is extraordinary.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
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Mascún V comes up about 17 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 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Mascún V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mascún V, late in the day. Next is Litonares L.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Litonares L write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Litonares L. That is the ride.
Litonares L → Mascún V is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún V → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Mascún V is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mascún V → Litonares L is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.