CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 592 km round trip from Broto - roughly 9 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo del Camino, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña, Chaves I and back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 42 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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84 km in you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is Chaves I.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
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Chaves I, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña sits at 168 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo del Camino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Camino write-up.
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back through Abrigo del Camino comes up 210 km in. Next is Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu closes the day.
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 → Chaves I is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chaves I → back through Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 30 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.