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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450 km from Oviedo to Oviedo, about 7 h 09 of riding. 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. 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 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 62 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 224 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 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 → Chemin Primitif is 62 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 165 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chemin Primitif → Cathédrale San Salvador et Chambre Sainte is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.