Why this ride
204 km from Lugo to Lugo, about 3 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Santiago de Compostela and back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Cathédral de Lugo and Santiago de Compostela
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 204 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 35
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Cathédral de Lugo
Lugo is one of those cities that tells you its age before you have parked. A ring of Roman wall, two kilometres of it and still complete, circles the old town, and walking along the top is the best way to understand why UNESCO listed it. The Romans founded Lucus Augusti here at the end of the first century before Christ, drawn by hot springs on the Miño river, and the baths are still in use by the riverside. The wall's gates, rebuilt and re-cut many times, let you walk in and out of the old quarter as people have for nearly two thousand years.
Read the complete Cathédral de Lugo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cathédral de Lugo is where the day begins. Next is Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
2. Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes
Pilgrims walking the Camino del Norte toward Santiago reach Sobrado dos Monxes tired and footsore, and the sight of the huge granite Baroque façade of the monastery, rising out of a quiet Galician village, must feel like a miracle. Sobrado was founded as a monastery in the tenth century, became Cistercian in the twelfth, and grew into one of the most powerful abbeys in Galicia. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the nineteenth century, it fell into ruin, until Cistercian monks returned in the 1950s and began restoring it. Today they run a pilgrim hostel in part of the buildings.
Read the complete Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Santiago de Compostela.
3. Santiago de Compostela
Whatever time you arrive in Santiago de Compostela, you will probably find someone crying in the Praza do Obradoiro. They have walked for weeks, or days, or the last hundred kilometres the pilgrim rule requires, and the cathedral at the end of it is as big and golden as they hoped. Santiago has been the goal of the Camino since the ninth century, when a hermit was said to have found the tomb of the apostle James here, and the city grew up around the shrine. The cathedral you see now is largely Romanesque in its bones, with a baroque front that glows when it is not raining, which in Galicia is a fair part of the year.
Read the complete Santiago de Compostela write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Santiago de Compostela. Next is back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
4. back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, late in the day. Next is Cathédral de Lugo.
5. Cathédral de Lugo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cathédral de Lugo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Cathédral de Lugo. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Cathédral de Lugo to Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes
Cathédral de Lugo → Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes to Santiago de Compostela
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Santiago de Compostela is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santiago de Compostela to back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes
Santiago de Compostela → back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes to Cathédral de Lugo
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Cathédral de Lugo is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.