CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 344 km round trip from Puente de Domingo Flórez - roughly 4 h 30 in the saddle. It goes by way of Roman Walls of Lugo, Chemin de l’Intérieur and back through Roman Walls of Lugo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 88 km in. Next is Chemin de l’Intérieur.
Pilgrims have been crossing this green upland of Galicia on their way to Santiago de Compostela for more than a thousand years, and the scallop-shell waymarkers still guide them through the villages around Vilalba and Guitiriz. This is the Terra Chá, the flat land, a high plateau in the north of the province of Lugo where the northern pilgrim routes come down from the Cantabrian coast toward the interior. The Ways of Saint James in northern Spain are part of a UNESCO listing that recognises not only the famous French Way but also the coastal and inland routes that run through this region.
Read the complete Chemin de l’Intérieur write-up.
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175 km in you reach Chemin de l’Intérieur. 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 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roman Walls of Lugo → Chemin de l’Intérieur is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin de l’Intérieur → back through Roman Walls of Lugo is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roman Walls of Lugo → Estéiles de Valdebría is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.