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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429 km from Mérida to Mérida, about 5 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Old Town of Cáceres, Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup and back through Old Town of Cáceres. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 84 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Most people come to Mérida for the Romans and leave without noticing that the city carried on being important long after the legions went home. The little church of Santa Clara, tucked into the old centre a few steps from the main squares, is where that later chapter is kept. It houses a collection of Visigothic art, mostly carved marble from the sixth and seventh centuries: friezes, pilasters and altar fragments decorated with vines, rosettes and geometric knots, much of it pulled out of Roman buildings and recut for Christian use. If the Roman theatre is the big gesture, this is the quieter and stranger one.
Read the complete Church of Sta. Clara and Visigothic Art Co write-up.
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Church of Sta. Clara and Visigothic Art Co is where the day begins. Next is Old Town of Cáceres.
Cáceres has an old town so complete that film crews treat it as a ready-made set, and walking its streets at dusk, when the stone glows amber and the crowds have gone, you can see why. Inside the walls, built largely by the Almohads in the twelfth century, are dozens of fortified mansions, towers, churches and palaces, many built by noble families who made their fortunes in the conquest of the Americas. The towers once had battlements, but Queen Isabella ordered most of them cut down to curb the nobles' power. UNESCO listed the old town in 1986.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
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Old Town of Cáceres comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup.
about 213 km into the recorded legs you reach Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup. Next is back through Old Town of Cáceres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Town of Cáceres, late in the day. Next is Church of Sta. Clara and Visigothic Art Co, 102 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of Sta. Clara and Visigothic Art Co write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Church of Sta. Clara and Visigothic Art Co. That is the ride.
Church of Sta. Clara and Visigothic Art Co → Old Town of Cáceres is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Town of Cáceres → Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup → back through Old Town of Cáceres is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Town of Cáceres → Church of Sta. Clara and Visigothic Art Co is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.