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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416 km from Irun to Irun, about 6 h 14 of riding. On the way it passes Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian, Pont de Briñas sur le Fleuve Ebro and back through Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Irun is where the coastal Way of St James, the Camino del Norte, crosses from France into Spain, and pilgrims have been walking over the Bidasoa here for centuries. The river is the border, and in the middle of it sits the Isle of Pheasants, a scrap of land that has been governed jointly by both countries since the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, changing hands every six months. It is a peculiar, rather charming thing to stand on the bank and look at.
Read the complete Chemin de la Côte write-up.
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Chemin de la Côte is where the day begins. Next is Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian.
Imagine a mountain with a hole through it, and a medieval road running straight through the hole. The tunnel of San Adrián is a natural cave passage near the crest of the Aizkorri range, on the border of Gipuzkoa and Álava, and for centuries it carried one of the main routes between the Castilian plateau and the Basque coast. Pilgrims on the inland Camino de Santiago, merchants, armies and kings all passed through it, and a small chapel was built inside the cave. The old paved road leading up to it survives in sections, worn smooth by centuries of hooves and boots.
Read the complete Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian write-up.
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Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pont de Briñas sur le Fleuve Ebro.
Every year on the morning of 29 June, the people of Haro climb a hill outside town and drench each other in red wine, and nobody has ever satisfactorily explained to me why this needs to happen at nine in the morning. The Batalla del Vino is the loudest expression of a town that lives and breathes wine. Haro is the heart of Rioja Alta, and just outside it the old stone bridge at Briñas crosses the Ebro, a medieval structure of solid arches that has carried travellers, mule trains and wine carts across the river for centuries.
Read the complete Pont de Briñas sur le Fleuve Ebro write-up.
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about 208 km into the recorded legs you reach Pont de Briñas sur le Fleuve Ebro. Next is back through Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian, late in the day. Next is Chemin de la Côte.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chemin de la Côte write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Chemin de la Côte. That is the ride.
Chemin de la Côte → Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian → Pont de Briñas sur le Fleuve Ebro is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pont de Briñas sur le Fleuve Ebro → back through Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chaussée et Tunnel de San Adrian → Chemin de la Côte is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.