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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From Oviedo it runs 148 km to Oviedo; allow about 2 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes La Peña de Candamo, Chemin Primitif and back through La Peña de Candamo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Oviedo wears its history lightly, and it is a surprisingly relaxed city, a green, rain-washed place of nearly a quarter of a million people at the foot of the Cantabrian mountains. Its Gothic cathedral, San Salvador, rises over the old town, but the real treasure is hidden inside: the Cámara Santa, the Holy Chamber, a small pre-Romanesque chapel built in the ninth century when King Alfonso II the Chaste made Oviedo the capital of the little Christian kingdom of Asturias. It holds the great relics of the Asturian monarchy, including two gold-and-jewel crosses, the Cross of the Angels and the Cross of Victory, which has become the symbol of the region, and a chest of relics that pilgrims came from across Europe to see.
Read the complete Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte write-up.
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Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte is where the day begins. Next is La Peña de Candamo.
In the hills above the Nalón valley in Asturias, a cave hides one of the great collections of Paleolithic art in Spain. The Cueva de la Peña de Candamo, near San Román de Candamo, was discovered in 1914 and contains paintings and engravings of horses, bison, deer, goats and other animals, made during the Upper Paleolithic, and a remarkable wall of engraved figures. It is part of the UNESCO listing of cave art in northern Spain, and unlike some other caves, it can be visited, though only in limited numbers and for part of the year, so book ahead.
Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
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La Peña de Candamo comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Chemin Primitif. Next is back through La Peña de Candamo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Peña de Candamo, late in the day. Next is Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte. That is the ride.
Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte → La Peña de Candamo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Peña de Candamo → Chemin Primitif is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin Primitif → back through La Peña de Candamo is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Peña de Candamo → Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.