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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A 353 km round trip from Alquézar - roughly 6 h 39 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cueva de Revilla, Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció and back through Cueva de Revilla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 65 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Cueva de Revilla.
Revilla is one of the most spectacularly placed hamlets in the Spanish Pyrenees, perched on a ledge above the Garganta de Escuaín, a deep gorge cut into the limestone of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. It looks down into the canyon from a terrace of meadows, with the high peaks behind. The Cueva de Revilla is a cave in the cliffs near the hamlet, and the area between Bielsa, Plan and Boltaña is some of the wildest country in Aragón.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de Revilla comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció.
Valleys in the high Pyrenees of Catalonia and Aragon are full of small Romanesque churches, and the area around the Alta Ribagorça is among the richest. They were built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries by craftsmen working in what is called the Lombard style, with plain stone walls, round arches and tall, slender bell towers decorated with blind arcades, and they stand in villages that often have only a few houses.
Read the complete Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció. Next is back through Cueva de Revilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de Revilla, 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 → Cueva de Revilla is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de Revilla → Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció → back through Cueva de Revilla is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cueva de Revilla → Litonares L is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.