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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A 126 km round trip from Camargo - roughly 2 h 03 in the saddle. The stops in between: Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître, Chemin de la Liébana and back through Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître. The line favours views over speed.
In 1997, in a cave that people had been visiting for over a century, a group of researchers noticed paintings that everyone had walked past: a frieze of red figures, deer, horses and goats, high on a wall in the main chamber. El Pendo, in the municipality of Camargo just south of Santander, had long been known for its deep layers of Stone Age occupation, but the frieze made it one of the important painted caves of Cantabria, and in 2008 it joined the World Heritage listing of the Paleolithic cave art of northern Spain alongside Altamira.
Read the complete El Pendo write-up.
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El Pendo is where the day begins. Next is Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître.
The saying goes that Santillana del Mar is the town of three lies, since it is not holy, not flat and has no sea, and the truth is that it is none of those things and one of the prettiest villages in northern Spain. The name comes from Santa Juliana, a martyr whose relics are kept in the collegiate church, and the town grew up around the monastery that held them in the early Middle Ages. Stone houses with carved coats of arms, wooden balconies and cobbled streets line the main road, and cows still wander through the lanes at times.
Read the complete Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître write-up.
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Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chemin de la Liébana.
San Vicente de la Barquera is where the Camino Lebaniego begins, the old pilgrim route that leaves the Cantabrian coast and climbs south into the mountains of Liébana to the monastery of Santo Toribio. The town sits on a pair of estuaries, with a long medieval bridge carrying the road across the water, a castle and the Gothic church of Santa María above the harbour, and on clear days the snowy peaks of the Picos de Europa rising behind the marshes like a stage set.
Read the complete Chemin de la Liébana write-up.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Chemin de la Liébana. Next is back through Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître, late in the day. Next is El Pendo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Pendo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at El Pendo. That is the ride.
El Pendo → Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître → Chemin de la Liébana is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin de la Liébana → back through Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Collégiale de Santa Juliana et son Cloître → El Pendo is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.