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 324 km to Bárcabo; allow about 5 h 32 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de Los Gitanos, Forau del Cocho and back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
The road north-west out of Huesca toward Pamplona runs along the foot of a dramatic wall of rock. To the north are the Pre-Pyrenean sierras, and studded along them are some of Aragón's most striking sights: the Castle of Loarre, a superbly preserved Romanesque fortress on a spur, and the Mallos de Riglos, huge red conglomerate towers rising straight out of the hillside. The rock shelter known as the Abrigo de los Gitanos lies in this country, between Ayerbe, Loarre and Luesia.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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Abrigo de Los Gitanos comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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about 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Forau del Cocho. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos, 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 → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Forau del Cocho is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Mascún IV is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.