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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
129 km from Tineo to Tineo, about 1 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador, Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña and back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador.
Pilgrims have been trudging past these walls for about a thousand years, which makes a motorcycle look like a rather recent idea. The monastery of San Salvador de Cornellana stands beside the Narcea river in central Asturias, on the old inland route to Santiago that runs west from Oviedo through Grado and Salas. It was founded in the eleventh century, passed to the Benedictines of Cluny, and the church that survives keeps Romanesque bones under later remodelling. The bulk of the cloister and the old monastic buildings give the little village a weight that seems out of proportion to its size.
Read the complete Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador write-up.
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Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña.
Soto de Luiña is a quiet parish in western Asturias, a short way inland from one of the wildest stretches of the Cantabrian coast, and its church of Santa María is the reason the village has a name beyond the region. The building is baroque, rebuilt in the eighteenth century around older foundations, and alongside it stands the former pilgrims' hospital that once took in walkers on the coastal Way of Saint James. The church's interior, with its gilded altarpieces, comes as a surprise in such a small place, and the whole ensemble gives a sense of how the Camino shaped even modest villages along the route.
Read the complete Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña. Next is back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador, late in the day. Next is 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 at Chemin Primitif. That is the ride.
Chemin Primitif → Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador → Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña → back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador → Chemin Primitif is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.