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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A 449 km round trip from Oviedo - roughly 7 h 10 in the saddle. 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.
Oviedo is a surprise, a small, green, rainy capital with an almost Alpine smell of woodsmoke and a history that begins with a king. In the early ninth century Alfonso II, called the Chaste, moved his court here and began building churches in a style now called Asturian pre-Romanesque, which is unlike anything else in Spain, with tall narrow proportions, round arches and decorated stone. The Cámara Santa is a chapel inside the cathedral of San Salvador, built to protect relics and treasures, and it still holds the Cross of the Angels, dated to 808, and the Cross of Victory, which belonged to the later king Alfonso III and became the emblem of Asturias. UNESCO included the city's early monuments in its list in 1985.
Read the complete Cámara Santa de Oviedo write-up.
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Cámara Santa de Oviedo 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 61 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 223 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chemin Primitif, late in the day. Next is Cámara Santa de Oviedo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cámara Santa de Oviedo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cámara Santa de Oviedo. That is the ride.
Cámara Santa de Oviedo → Chemin Primitif is 61 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 → Cámara Santa de Oviedo is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.