Northern Aragón & the Basque Country are two of Europe’s best-kept secrets, the sort of place where old Spain still lives and breathes while brimming with fascinating mountain bike destinations. To let you discover them, we’ve compiled a list of bike movies here.
SPANISH UTAH
Watch here how you will cycle through an empty landscape and down a series of canyons for miles on end. Prepare yourself for some super-fun twisty desert single tracks!
SPANISH UTAH
Watch Maraton de los Barrancos: a bike event held annually in Calatayud. This video will give you a good idea of what to expect from riding the canyons around the Sierra de Armantes.
HUESCA
Check out the way in which the province of Huesca, which borders the Pyrenees and is home to Sierra de Guara, Ainsa, the Ordesa National Park and Monte Perdido. promotes itself as a magical biking destination.
SIERRA DE GUARA
Have a short look at the beautiful natural surroundings of Sierra de Guara – ‘where adventure is born’. It is most famous for canyoning but it is on the up as a world-class biking destination.
SIERRA DE GUARA
Watch this cloudy ride through the forgotten medieval villages of the Sierra de Guara, now a well-preserved biker’s paradise, which is only known by local riders.
SIERRA DE GUARA
Our guides have expert knowledge of this area. So, those looking for a real adventure off-the-beaten track will enjoy some of the crossings of hidden rivers and canyons. We certainly do.
AINSA
Hidden in the shadows of the Spanish Pyrenees sits a small town where world-class mountain bike trails are abundant. That town is Ainsa, from where you will ride the classic Vuelta Pena Montanesa. Watch here.
AINSA
Ainsa is known by mountain bike connoisseurs as the next big thing so we’d suggest you hurry up and visit it before everyone else discovers it….
ORDESA & MONTE PERDIDO
Don’t miss the opportunity to ride to this Unesco World Heritage Site, with cliffs rising over 800m on each side and Monte Perdido (3355m) perched majestically at the valley’s end.
ANISCLO & ORDESA CANYON
Watch a group of tourists ride through the narrow Anisclo Canyon (from 4:28 min), all the way up to the Mirador De Ordesa, at 2200m (from 15:50 min). This will soon be you!
THE BASQUE COUNTRY
The Peñas de Aia natural park between Pamplona and San Sebastián offers spectacular bike scenery: Txingudi Bay is in the foreground, while southwards sits a landscape of summits and passes along the boundary with Navarre.
THE BASQUE COAST
What a final ride! You will enjoy the stunning single-track riding along the rocky Atlantic coast from Hondarribia, over the Mount Jaizkebel, all the way to the beach of San Sebastián, Catch a glimpse of the journey here.