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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370 km from Burgos to Burgos, about 5 h 45 of riding. On the way it passes Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites, Cathedrale de Vitoria-Gasteiz and back through Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 81 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Burgos Cathedral took its time. Work began in 1221 under Bishop Mauricio and King Fernando III, and the building grew in stages for three centuries, which is why it contains a French-inspired Gothic nave, a Renaissance golden staircase by Diego de Siloé, a Constable's chapel of astonishing complexity and, above the crossing, an octagonal lantern whose star-vault, rebuilt in the sixteenth century, is a masterpiece of Renaissance ornament. The two openwork spires of the façade were added in the fifteenth century by a craftsman from Cologne, Johann, and they give the building its unmistakable outline. UNESCO listed the cathedral in 1984, one of the first Spanish sites to be added.
Read the complete Burgos Cathedral write-up.
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Burgos Cathedral is where the day begins. Next is Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites.
In a quiet valley in the foothills of the Sierra de la Demanda, in La Rioja, two monasteries stand one above the other, and between them they tell a story that matters to hundreds of millions of people. The upper monastery, Suso, is small and ancient, built partly into caves on the hillside where the hermit Saint Aemilian, San Millán, lived in the sixth century. The lower monastery, Yuso, is a grand complex of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, sometimes called the Escorial of La Rioja. Together they were listed by UNESCO in 1997, recognised as the birthplace of the written Spanish language.
Read the complete Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites write-up.
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Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites comes up about 122 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cathedrale de Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capital of the Basque Country and possibly its most underrated city. It sits on a high plateau, the Llanada Alavesa, surrounded by low mountains and wide farmland, and its medieval old town climbs a small hill in the shape of an almond, with the old cathedral of Santa María at the top. This is the cathedral the label refers to, a Gothic church begun in the thirteenth century as both a temple and part of the town's defences.
Read the complete Cathedrale de Vitoria-Gasteiz write-up.
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about 200 km into the recorded legs you reach Cathedrale de Vitoria-Gasteiz. Next is back through Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites, late in the day. Next is Burgos Cathedral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Burgos Cathedral write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Burgos Cathedral. That is the ride.
Burgos Cathedral → Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites → Cathedrale de Vitoria-Gasteiz is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cathedrale de Vitoria-Gasteiz → back through Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Suso Monastery and Archaeological Sites → Burgos Cathedral is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.