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 253 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 4 h 55 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abrigo de Arilla, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Abrigo de Arilla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
There is a corner of the Vero valley where the road begins to remind you of Pyrenean country, and Muriecho, five kilometres from Alquézar and a little to the east, is on the edge of it. The shelter listed as Muriecho E2 is the second in its series in this area, and belongs with the painted rocks of the Vero that UNESCO placed on its World Heritage list in 1998. The village of Muriecho itself is one of the many small settlements in this part of Huesca that lost most of their people in the twentieth century, as the young moved to Zaragoza, Barcelona or abroad.
Read the complete Muriecho E2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Muriecho E2 is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Arilla.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a rough range of sandstone and limestone where rivers have cut deep, dark canyons that are among the best in Europe for canyoning. The Abrigo de Arilla lies in that country, well off the main roads, in the lonely hills between Alquézar and the Sierra, and is one of the rock shelters of the Río Vero cultural park. The paintings are mostly Levantine and schematic, thousands of years old, and are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. Reaching the shelters generally requires a walk, and regulations apply.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
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Abrigo de Arilla comes up about 43 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Abrigo de Arilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Arilla, late in the day. Next is Muriecho E2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Muriecho E2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Muriecho E2. That is the ride.
Muriecho E2 → Abrigo de Arilla is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Arilla → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Abrigo de Arilla is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Arilla → Muriecho E2 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.