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.
From San Pedro de Mérida it runs 449 km to San Pedro de Mérida; allow about 6 h 20 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. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 76 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Nearly two thousand years after Roman engineers built it, the dam at Cornalvo still holds water. It lies in the rolling countryside north-east of Mérida, in Extremadura, and it supplied the Roman city of Augusta Emerita, capital of the province of Lusitania. The dam is an earthen embankment faced with stone, with a tower in the reservoir that controlled the outflow, and it is part of the Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Cornalvo Dam write-up.
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Cornalvo Dam 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 86 km into the recorded legs. Next is Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup.
about 223 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 Cornalvo Dam.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cornalvo Dam write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cornalvo Dam. That is the ride.
Cornalvo Dam → Old Town of Cáceres is 86 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 → Cornalvo Dam is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.