Why this ride
100 km from Toledo to Toledo, about 1 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Aranjuez Cultural Landscape and back through Aranjuez Cultural Landscape.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Toledo afternoon · Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 100 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 34
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Toledo
Toledo sits inside a nearly closed loop of the Tagus, a granite gorge that makes the old city a natural fortress, and the first sight of it from the ring road is one that few riders forget. The Carretera de Circunvalación runs around the opposite bank, and its lay-bys and viewpoints, especially the Mirador del Valle, give the classic view: the Alcázar and cathedral on the skyline, the Alcántara bridge below, and the river shining in the gorge. El Greco painted that same view in the early seventeenth century, with stormy skies, and it is not hard to see why.
Read the complete High point near Toledo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Toledo is where the day begins. Next is Aranjuez Cultural Landscape.
2. Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Aranjuez is the green oasis of the dry Madrid plain, a royal town built where the Tagus and the Jarama rivers meet and where Spanish kings came every spring to escape the court. The palace, largely an eighteenth-century Bourbon creation, faces broad avenues and formal gardens, and the riverside parks of the Jardín de la Isla and the Jardín del Príncipe stretch for kilometres along the water, with fountains, statues, an artificial island and tall old trees. In 2001 UNESCO listed the whole thing as a cultural landscape, recognising how the kings shaped nature, agriculture and town planning into a single designed whole.
Read the complete Aranjuez Cultural Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Aranjuez Cultural Landscape comes up 28 km in. Next is Aranjuez Cultural Landscape.
3. Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aranjuez Cultural Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
55 km in you reach Aranjuez Cultural Landscape. Next is back through Aranjuez Cultural Landscape.
4. back through Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aranjuez Cultural Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Aranjuez Cultural Landscape, late in the day. Next is Toledo.
5. Toledo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete High point near Toledo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Toledo. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Toledo to Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Toledo → Aranjuez Cultural Landscape is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Aranjuez Cultural Landscape to Toledo
back through Aranjuez Cultural Landscape → Toledo is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.