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 286 km round trip from San Vicente de la Barquera - roughly 3 h 56 in the saddle. The stops in between: Monte Castillo - Las Monedas, Eglise Santa Maria de la Asuncion and back through Monte Castillo - Las Monedas. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
On the coast of eastern Asturias, near the village of Pimiango, a cave opens in the cliffs above the sea, and inside, Palaeolithic artists painted and engraved animals on the walls: a mammoth, horses, a bison, a fish, and many red dots and signs. El Pindal is one of the caves included in the World Heritage listing of the Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain, and its location, with the sea pounding the rocks below and the Picos de Europa rising inland, is spectacular. Visits are limited and guided, to protect the paintings.
Read the complete El Pindal write-up.
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El Pindal is where the day begins. Next is Monte Castillo - Las Monedas.
Las Monedas is the cave that took its name from a handful of small coins, and the story says a lot about the place. Monte Castillo, at Puente Viesgo in Cantabria, has been known as a prehistoric hill since the early twentieth century, and visitors have been coming here for centuries, leaving behind bits of themselves. The coins were found in the cave, and the name stuck.
Read the complete Monte Castillo - Las Monedas write-up.
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Monte Castillo - Las Monedas comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eglise Santa Maria de la Asuncion.
Castro-Urdiales has one of the best harbour fronts on the whole Cantabrian coast, and it knows it. The Gothic church of Santa María de la Asunción stands on a rocky headland above the old port, its buttresses and pinnacles silhouetted against the sea, flanked by the remains of a castle that now holds a lighthouse and by a medieval bridge leading to a little chapel on a rock. Built from the thirteenth century onward, the church is one of the finest Gothic buildings in northern Spain, and it lies on the coastal route of the Way of Saint James, which is part of a UNESCO listing that covers the pilgrimage roads of the north.
Read the complete Eglise Santa Maria de la Asuncion write-up.
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about 142 km into the recorded legs you reach Eglise Santa Maria de la Asuncion. Next is back through Monte Castillo - Las Monedas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monte Castillo - Las Monedas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Monte Castillo - Las Monedas, late in the day. Next is El Pindal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete El Pindal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at El Pindal. That is the ride.
El Pindal → Monte Castillo - Las Monedas is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monte Castillo - Las Monedas → Eglise Santa Maria de la Asuncion is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Eglise Santa Maria de la Asuncion → back through Monte Castillo - Las Monedas is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Monte Castillo - Las Monedas → El Pindal is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.