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.
450 km from Oviedo to Oviedo, about 7 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of Chemin Primitif, Las Médulas and back through Chemin Primitif. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Asturias had a king who believed in building well, and Alfonso II, known as the Chaste, is the reason the church of San Julián de los Prados exists. He made Oviedo his capital in the early ninth century, and the basilica, known locally as Santullano, was raised outside the city walls around the year 830. It is the largest church of the Asturian pre-Romanesque style, a plain, tall building of stone with a red-tiled roof, and it has one thing that makes it unique.
Read the complete Basilica of San Julián de los Prados write-up.
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Basilica of San Julián de los Prados is where the day begins. Next is Chemin Primitif.
Tineo stands on a hillside above the green valleys of western Asturias, and it is one of the main stops on the Camino Primitivo, the original Way of St James. According to tradition, it was King Alfonso II of Asturias who first walked from Oviedo to Santiago in the ninth century to see the tomb, newly found, of the apostle, and the route he took became the Primitivo. It is the hardest of the Caminos, crossing mountain after mountain, and the pilgrims you meet here, wet, muddy and cheerful, are a special breed.
Read the complete Chemin Primitif write-up.
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Chemin Primitif comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Médulas.
Walk into Las Médulas on a clear autumn morning and you meet a strange kind of silence. The red crags stand around you like the ruins of a cathedral built from clay, and the chestnut trees, some of them centuries old, drop their husks onto the path. It is a landscape made by an empire and then forgotten by it, left to grow over for nearly two thousand years.
Read the complete Las Médulas write-up.
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about 222 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Médulas. Next is back through Chemin Primitif.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chemin Primitif write-up.
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back through Chemin Primitif, late in the day. Next is Basilica of San Julián de los Prados.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Basilica of San Julián de los Prados write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Basilica of San Julián de los Prados. That is the ride.
Basilica of San Julián de los Prados → Chemin Primitif is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin Primitif → Las Médulas is 162 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Las Médulas → back through Chemin Primitif is 166 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chemin Primitif → Basilica of San Julián de los Prados is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.