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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From Bárcabo it runs 199 km to Bárcabo; allow about 4 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes Malforá I, El Remosillo and back through Malforá I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Huesca was the capital of the kingdom of Aragón until the end of the eleventh century, when King Pedro I captured it from the Muslim rulers and made it his base. Today it is a calm provincial city of more than fifty thousand people, with a Gothic cathedral that has a magnificent alabaster altarpiece and the Romanesque monastery church of San Pedro el Viejo. It is the last big town before the mountains, and it is where you will want to fill your tank before heading north into the Sierra de Guara. The shelter at Mascún IV lies about thirty kilometres away, deep in the Mascún valley, about fifteen kilometres from Alquézar. It carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and the ride links it with the Cueva de los Moros.
Read the complete Mascún IV write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mascún IV is where the day begins. Next is Malforá I.
The Sierra de Guara is where the Pyrenean foothills turn to stone. Limestone ridges, deep canyons and rocky crags form a country that is famous among canyoners, and the Vero river runs through the middle in a gorge of pale, polished rock. Alquézar, a village of only about 300 people, perches on a rocky spur over the river, with a collegiate church and a castle on top, and its narrow lanes are among the most photographed in Aragon. It was once a Moorish stronghold, and in the eleventh century it fell to the Christian king Sancho Ramírez, an event that marks the early Reconquista in this region.
Read the complete Malforá I write-up.
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Malforá 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 Malforá I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Malforá I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Malforá I, late in the day. Next is Mascún IV.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún IV write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mascún IV. That is the ride.
Mascún IV → Malforá I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Malforá I → El Remosillo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Malforá I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Malforá I → Mascún IV is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.