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.
199 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 4 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Viñamala I, El Remosillo and back through Viñamala 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.
The Sierra de Guara is among the great limestone landscapes of Spain, and the Mascún gorge, cut deep into its southern flank, is one of the best known. The river has worn a long, narrow canyon, with walls hundreds of metres high, and at its head stands the little village of Rodellar, which has become a pilgrimage place for climbers from across Europe. Mascún III lies about fifteen kilometres from Alquézar and farther still from any big town, and it is one of a series of painted shelters in the canyon. They carry figures in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain. Another ride connects it to the beech woods of the Hayedos de Navarra, which tells you how far these routes travel.
Read the complete Mascún III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mascún III is where the day begins. Next is Viñamala I.
Alquézar is the village everyone photographs in the Sierra de Guara, a cluster of golden-stone houses on a rocky spur above the Vero river, crowned by a collegiate church that began life as a castle. The Muslim rulers of Barbastro built a fortress here, and in the eleventh century, King Sancho Ramírez of Aragón captured it and turned it into a base for the reconquest of the plain below. The church that now stands on the site, with its Romanesque and later Gothic features, preserves some of the old walls, and the view from the terrace across the canyon is worth the climb.
Read the complete Viñamala I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Viñamala I comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Remosillo.
If you ride north from Barbastro toward Graus, the Ésera river eventually forces its way through a ridge of limestone, and the result is the Congosto de Olvena, a short, deep gorge with the road squeezed between rock and water. Up on the cliffs around here are rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, and El Remosillo is one of the best known in this corner of Aragón, between Estadilla, Graus and Fonz.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. Next is back through Viñamala I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Viñamala I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Viñamala I, late in the day. Next is Mascún III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mascún III. That is the ride.
Mascún III → Viñamala I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Viñamala I → El Remosillo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Viñamala I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Viñamala I → Mascún III is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.