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 359 km round trip from Puente de Domingo Flórez - roughly 4 h 55 in the saddle. On the way it passes Roman Walls of Lugo, Cathedrale de Mondonedo and back through Roman Walls of Lugo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 66 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The name Valdebría points to a valley, and the ground here bears it out: a fold in the hills above the Sil where the land drops away in terraces and the old Roman workings leave their pale scars on the slopes. This stop is about the scale of what happened here. In the first and second centuries, tens of thousands of people, many of them enslaved or forced labourers, worked the gold-bearing gravels across the north-west of the peninsula, and the estéiles are what they left behind.
Read the complete Estéiles de Valdebría write-up.
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Estéiles de Valdebría is where the day begins. Next is Roman Walls of Lugo.
Lugo is the only city in the world still completely surrounded by intact Roman walls. Built in the late third century, when the Roman Empire was under pressure from invasions, the walls run for more than two kilometres around the old town, with dozens of semicircular towers and ten gates, some Roman and some added later. They are wide enough at the top for a walkway, and walking the full circuit, with views over the rooftops of the old town on one side and the modern city on the other, is the best way to get a sense of the place. The walls were listed by UNESCO in 2000.
Read the complete Roman Walls of Lugo write-up.
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Roman Walls of Lugo comes up about 119 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cathedrale de Mondonedo.
Mondoñedo is a small cathedral city in the north of Galicia, tucked into a green valley of the Masma river between the Cantabrian coast and the hills of the interior. With barely five thousand people it is one of the smallest places in Spain to have a cathedral, and the building is the reason the town exists. It was begun in the late twelfth century and finished over several centuries, with a Romanesque core, Gothic vaults and a Baroque west front with two towers. Inside, there are medieval wall paintings in the cloister and a fine stone choir, and the whole is built from the grey local granite, which turns green with lichen and gold in the evening sun.
Read the complete Cathedrale de Mondonedo write-up.
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about 179 km into the recorded legs you reach Cathedrale de Mondonedo. Next is back through Roman Walls of Lugo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roman Walls of Lugo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Roman Walls of Lugo, late in the day. Next is Estéiles de Valdebría.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estéiles de Valdebría write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Estéiles de Valdebría. That is the ride.
Estéiles de Valdebría → Roman Walls of Lugo is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roman Walls of Lugo → Cathedrale de Mondonedo is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cathedrale de Mondonedo → back through Roman Walls of Lugo is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Roman Walls of Lugo → Estéiles de Valdebría is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.