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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316 km from Mondoñedo to Mondoñedo, about 5 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Chemin de l’Intérieur, Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Santiago de Compostela and back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 57 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Mondoñedo is a small cathedral city in the north of Galicia, tucked into a green valley of the Masma river between the Cantabrian coast and the hills of the interior. With barely five thousand people it is one of the smallest places in Spain to have a cathedral, and the building is the reason the town exists. It was begun in the late twelfth century and finished over several centuries, with a Romanesque core, Gothic vaults and a Baroque west front with two towers. Inside, there are medieval wall paintings in the cloister and a fine stone choir, and the whole is built from the grey local granite, which turns green with lichen and gold in the evening sun.
Read the complete Cathedrale de Mondonedo write-up.
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Cathedrale de Mondonedo is where the day begins. Next is Chemin de l’Intérieur.
Pilgrims have been crossing this green upland of Galicia on their way to Santiago de Compostela for more than a thousand years, and the scallop-shell waymarkers still guide them through the villages around Vilalba and Guitiriz. This is the Terra Chá, the flat land, a high plateau in the north of the province of Lugo where the northern pilgrim routes come down from the Cantabrian coast toward the interior. The Ways of Saint James in northern Spain are part of a UNESCO listing that recognises not only the famous French Way but also the coastal and inland routes that run through this region.
Read the complete Chemin de l’Intérieur write-up.
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Chemin de l’Intérieur comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 98 km into the recorded legs you reach Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes. Next is 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.
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Santiago de Compostela, about halfway. Next is back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes sits at 216 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chemin de l’Intérieur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chemin de l’Intérieur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chemin de l’Intérieur comes up about 258 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cathedrale de Mondonedo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cathedrale de Mondonedo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cathedrale de Mondonedo closes the day.
Cathedrale de Mondonedo → Chemin de l’Intérieur is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin de l’Intérieur → Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → 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 → back through Chemin de l’Intérieur is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chemin de l’Intérieur → Cathedrale de Mondonedo is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.