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 Cudillero it runs 461 km to Cudillero; allow about 6 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Chemin Primitif, San Miguel de Lillo, Santa Cristina de Lena and Eglise San Salvador. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Chemin Primitif.
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.
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Chemin Primitif comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 118 km into the recorded legs you reach San Miguel de Lillo. 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.
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Santa Cristina de Lena, about halfway. Next is Eglise San Salvador.
Tucked into a narrow valley a few kilometres south of Villaviciosa, the little church of San Salvador de Valdediós is one of the jewels of Asturian pre-Romanesque architecture. Locals call it El Conventín, the little convent, and it was consecrated at the end of the ninth century under King Alfonso III, during the period when the small Kingdom of Asturias was the only Christian state in Iberia not under Muslim rule. Its tall, narrow nave, round arches and delicate stone lattice windows give it a strangely intimate atmosphere.
Read the complete Eglise San Salvador write-up.
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Eglise San Salvador sits at 209 km, about halfway. Next is back through Santa Cristina de Lena.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santa Cristina de Lena write-up.
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back through Santa Cristina de Lena comes up about 306 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through San Miguel de Lillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Miguel de Lillo write-up.
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about 344 km into the recorded legs you reach back through San Miguel de Lillo. Next is back through Chemin Primitif.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chemin Primitif write-up.
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back through Chemin Primitif, late in the day. Next is 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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The route ends here after 461 km.
Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña → Chemin Primitif is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin Primitif → San Miguel de Lillo is 62 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 → Eglise San Salvador is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Eglise San Salvador → back through Santa Cristina de Lena is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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 Chemin Primitif is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chemin Primitif → Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.