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 Grado it runs 283 km to Grado; allow about 4 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña, La Peña de Candamo, San Miguel de Lillo and Santa Cristina de Lena. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Peña de Candamo.
In the hills above the Nalón valley in Asturias, a cave hides one of the great collections of Paleolithic art in Spain. The Cueva de la Peña de Candamo, near San Román de Candamo, was discovered in 1914 and contains paintings and engravings of horses, bison, deer, goats and other animals, made during the Upper Paleolithic, and a remarkable wall of engraved figures. It is part of the UNESCO listing of cave art in northern Spain, and unlike some other caves, it can be visited, though only in limited numbers and for part of the year, so book ahead.
Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach La Peña de Candamo. Next is San Miguel de Lillo.
The hill of Naranco rises just north of Oviedo, the capital of Asturias, and on its slope, among oaks and chestnuts, stand two small stone buildings that are among the oldest and strangest churches in Europe. San Miguel de Lillo is the smaller and the more battered, and it lies a few minutes above Santa María del Naranco, three kilometres from the middle of the city, in a green landscape of meadows and apple orchards.
Read the complete San Miguel de Lillo write-up.
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San Miguel de Lillo, about halfway. Next is Santa Cristina de Lena.
On a grassy knoll above the Lena valley, south of Oviedo, stands a tiny stone church that has watched over the main road between Asturias and Castile for more than a thousand years. Santa Cristina de Lena is one of the jewels of Asturian pre-Romanesque architecture, built in the ninth century when the little Christian kingdom of Asturias was the only part of Iberia outside Muslim rule. Its unusual plan, with a raised presbytery behind an arcade of carved arches, and its finely worked stone screens are unique. Together with Santa María del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo in Oviedo, it is part of a World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Santa Cristina de Lena write-up.
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Santa Cristina de Lena sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through San Miguel de Lillo.
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Read the complete San Miguel de Lillo write-up.
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back through San Miguel de Lillo comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through La Peña de Candamo.
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Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
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about 214 km into the recorded legs you reach back through La Peña de Candamo. Next is back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña write-up.
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back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña, late in the day. Next is Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador write-up.
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The route ends here after 283 km.
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 → La Peña de Candamo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Peña de Candamo → San Miguel de Lillo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Miguel de Lillo → Santa Cristina de Lena is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santa Cristina de Lena → back through San Miguel de Lillo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Miguel de Lillo → back through La Peña de Candamo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Peña de Candamo → back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña → Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.