CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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217 km from Broto to Broto, about 4 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez, Cueva Peña Miel I and back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 42 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 de la Ermita de San Urbez.
The Añisclo canyon is one of the deepest and narrowest in the Spanish Pyrenees, a cleft in the limestone of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, and the road that runs through its lower section is one of the most remarkable in Aragon. At its southern end, beside an old stone bridge over the Bellós river, stands the hermitage of San Úrbez, built half into the cliff, with a cave behind it where tradition says the saint lived as a hermit. Close by, rock shelters hold traces of prehistoric painting.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
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Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez comes up 31 km in. Next is Cueva Peña Miel I.
The Sierra de Guara, in the province of Huesca, is a limestone range riddled with canyons, and the river Vero cuts one of the most beautiful of them, a deep, narrow gorge of grey and ochre cliffs where vultures nest and the water runs clear over pale stones. Along its walls, prehistoric people left paintings in dozens of rock shelters, and the Cueva Peña Miel I is one of them, part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Río Vero Cultural Park protects the area, with an interpretation centre in Colungo and guided visits to some of the shelters.
Read the complete Cueva Peña Miel I write-up.
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61 km in you reach Cueva Peña Miel I. Next is back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez, late in the day. 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.
Back at Pyrénées - Mont Perdu. That is the ride.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → Cueva Peña Miel I is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva Peña Miel I → back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.