CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Santiago de Compostela it runs 398 km to Santiago de Compostela; allow about 6 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Tower of Hercules, Chemin de l’Intérieur and back through Tower of Hercules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 1 km this is Costa da Morte Scenic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Whatever time you arrive in Santiago de Compostela, you will probably find someone crying in the Praza do Obradoiro. They have walked for weeks, or days, or the last hundred kilometres the pilgrim rule requires, and the cathedral at the end of it is as big and golden as they hoped. Santiago has been the goal of the Camino since the ninth century, when a hermit was said to have found the tomb of the apostle James here, and the city grew up around the shrine. The cathedral you see now is largely Romanesque in its bones, with a baroque front that glows when it is not raining, which in Galicia is a fair part of the year.
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Santiago de Compostela is where the day begins. Next is Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
Pilgrims walking the Camino del Norte toward Santiago reach Sobrado dos Monxes tired and footsore, and the sight of the huge granite Baroque façade of the monastery, rising out of a quiet Galician village, must feel like a miracle. Sobrado was founded as a monastery in the tenth century, became Cistercian in the twelfth, and grew into one of the most powerful abbeys in Galicia. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the nineteenth century, it fell into ruin, until Cistercian monks returned in the 1950s and began restoring it. Today they run a pilgrim hostel in part of the buildings.
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Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes comes up 48 km in. Next is Tower of Hercules.
On a rocky headland at the edge of A Coruña, a city of about two hundred and fifty thousand people on the north-west corner of Spain, stands a grey stone tower nearly fifty-five metres tall. It is the Tower of Hercules, and it is the oldest Roman lighthouse in the world still in use, which makes it a good deal older than almost anything else that works in Europe. UNESCO inscribed it in 2009.
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95 km in you reach Tower of Hercules. Next is Tower of Hercules.
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Tower of Hercules, about halfway. Next is Chemin de l’Intérieur.
Pilgrims have been crossing this green upland of Galicia on their way to Santiago de Compostela for more than a thousand years, and the scallop-shell waymarkers still guide them through the villages around Vilalba and Guitiriz. This is the Terra Chá, the flat land, a high plateau in the north of the province of Lugo where the northern pilgrim routes come down from the Cantabrian coast toward the interior. The Ways of Saint James in northern Spain are part of a UNESCO listing that recognises not only the famous French Way but also the coastal and inland routes that run through this region.
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Chemin de l’Intérieur sits at 191 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tower of Hercules.
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back through Tower of Hercules comes up 238 km in. Next is back through Tower of Hercules.
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286 km in you reach back through Tower of Hercules. Next is back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
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back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, late in the day. Next is Santiago de Compostela.
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The route ends here after 398 km.
Santiago de Compostela → Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Tower of Hercules is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tower of Hercules → Chemin de l’Intérieur is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin de l’Intérieur → back through Tower of Hercules is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tower of Hercules → back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Santiago de Compostela is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.