CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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706 km from Broto to Broto, about 11 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo del Camino, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Forau del Cocho and Abside. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Monte Perdido, the lost mountain, at 3,355 metres, is the highest limestone massif in Europe and the centrepiece of a cross-border World Heritage site shared by Spain and France. On the Spanish side, it gives its name to the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, with deep canyons radiating out from the summit; on the French side, it looks down on the great cirques of Gavarnie and Troumouse.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo del Camino.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a limestone range cut by canyons so deep and narrow that they have made the area a centre for canyoning. The river Vero runs through one of them, a gorge of pale rock and clear green pools, and at its mouth stands the village of Alquézar, whose collegiate church and castle dominate a rocky spur above the water. The Abrigo del Camino is one of the painted shelters in this country, part of the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean arc that UNESCO lists, in a landscape that suits prehistoric hunters well.
Read the complete Abrigo del Camino write-up.
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Abrigo del Camino comes up 52 km in. 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.
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104 km in you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. 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.
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Forau del Cocho, about halfway. Next is Abside.
Zaragoza is a city of brick. In the centuries after the Christian conquest of 1118, the Muslim craftsmen who remained and their descendants, the Mudéjars, built churches and towers across Aragon using brick, glazed tile and decorative patterns of geometric inlay, and the result is a style found nowhere else. In Zaragoza the brick apses and towers of the old churches, with their blind arcades and zigzag courses, are the best examples, and the Mudéjar architecture of Aragon is a World Heritage listing, first awarded in 1986 and extended in 2001. The apse at this stop is a piece of that heritage.
Read the complete Abside write-up.
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Abside sits at 207 km, about halfway. Next is back through Forau del Cocho.
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Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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back through Forau del Cocho comes up 259 km in. Next is back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
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Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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311 km in you reach back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Abrigo del Camino.
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Read the complete Abrigo del Camino write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Camino, late in the day. Next is Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
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Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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The route ends here after 706 km.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Abrigo del Camino is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Camino → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Forau del Cocho is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → Abside is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abside → back through Forau del Cocho is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Forau del Cocho → back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Abrigo del Camino is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo del Camino → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.