CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. 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.
From Mérida it runs 427 km to Mérida; allow about 5 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Old Town of Cáceres, Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup and back through Old Town of Cáceres. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 84 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Mérida is one of those places where you can trip over two thousand years of history on the way to buy bread. The Archaeological Ensemble is the UNESCO name, dating from 1993, for a cluster of Roman monuments spread through the modern town: a theatre, an amphitheatre, a circus, bridges, aqueducts, temples and a forum, all preserved to a degree that is rare outside Italy. The Guadiana flows past below, wide and slow in summer, and the town sits on its north bank among olive groves and plains of wheat.
Read the complete Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida write-up.
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Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida is where the day begins. Next is Old Town of Cáceres.
Cáceres has an old town so complete that film crews treat it as a ready-made set, and walking its streets at dusk, when the stone glows amber and the crowds have gone, you can see why. Inside the walls, built largely by the Almohads in the twelfth century, are dozens of fortified mansions, towers, churches and palaces, many built by noble families who made their fortunes in the conquest of the Americas. The towers once had battlements, but Queen Isabella ordered most of them cut down to curb the nobles' power. UNESCO listed the old town in 1986.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
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Old Town of Cáceres comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup.
about 213 km into the recorded legs you reach Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup. Next is back through Old Town of Cáceres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Town of Cáceres, late in the day. Next is Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida. That is the ride.
Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida → Old Town of Cáceres is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Town of Cáceres → Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup → back through Old Town of Cáceres is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Town of Cáceres → Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.