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 Salamanca it runs 360 km to Salamanca; allow about 4 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Hermitage of San Segundo, Subsidiary building \La Casita del Infante and back through Hermitage of San Segundo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
In 1592 King Philip II gave permission for an Irish college to be set up in Salamanca, and the reason says a lot about the age. In Ireland, Catholics were barred from higher education under the Protestant crown of Elizabeth I, and the young men who wanted to become priests had to leave the country to train. Salamanca, with its great university, was a natural destination, and for centuries Irish students studied here and returned home, often at great risk, to serve their communities. The college buildings, set around a pretty courtyard in the Renaissance style, were in later times used by the Irish church, and many of the students became bishops and scholars.
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Colegio de los Irlandeses is where the day begins. Next is Hermitage of San Segundo.
Outside the great medieval walls of Ávila, down by the river Adaja, a small Romanesque church stands among trees, quiet and often overlooked by the crowds heading for the walls and the cathedral. The Hermitage of San Segundo is dedicated to the first bishop of Ávila, according to tradition one of seven early missionaries sent to Spain, and it holds an alabaster statue of the saint at prayer, carved in the sixteenth century by the sculptor Juan de Juni. The building itself is simple and austere, with a beautiful carved doorway, and it is a lovely, peaceful place to visit. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches.
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Hermitage of San Segundo comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Subsidiary building \La Casita del Infante.
Most people who come to San Lorenzo de El Escorial only see the monastery, that vast granite grid Philip II raised in the second half of the sixteenth century as palace, basilica, library and royal tomb all at once. A short walk below it, through terraced gardens and woodland, sits something far more human in scale. The Casita del Infante, also called the Casita de Arriba, was designed by Juan de Villanueva in the late eighteenth century for the Infante Gabriel, a son of Carlos III, as a place to retreat, play music and escape the endless etiquette of court. Its sibling, the Casita del Príncipe, lies down the hill near the town of El Escorial and was built for the future Carlos IV.
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about 179 km into the recorded legs you reach Subsidiary building \La Casita del Infante. Next is back through Hermitage of San Segundo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Hermitage of San Segundo, late in the day. Next is Colegio de los Irlandeses.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Colegio de los Irlandeses write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Colegio de los Irlandeses. That is the ride.
Colegio de los Irlandeses → Hermitage of San Segundo is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hermitage of San Segundo → Subsidiary building \La Casita del Infante is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Subsidiary building \La Casita del Infante → back through Hermitage of San Segundo is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hermitage of San Segundo → Colegio de los Irlandeses is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.