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 312 km round trip from Riaza - roughly 4 h 51 in the saddle. It goes by way of Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct, Church of San Andrés and back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 79 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Beech forests are rare in the Spanish interior, and the Hayedo de la Tejera Negra, in the Sierra de Ayllón, is one of the southernmost in Europe, a relic of a colder age that has survived on the shaded north slopes of the range. It lies in the province of Guadalajara, about eight kilometres from Riaza and just across the border from Segovia, at an altitude of well over a thousand metres, and is protected as a natural park. In October the leaves turn gold and copper, and the forest becomes one of the best autumn spectacles in central Spain, so popular that the park limits visitors and asks you to book.
Read the complete Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra is where the day begins. Next is Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct.
The Roman aqueduct of Segovia strides through the middle of the city on two tiers of granite arches, nearly thirty metres high at its tallest point, built without a drop of mortar, the stones held together by their own weight. It was probably built around the end of the first century or early second century AD, and it carried water to the city until well into modern times. Standing beneath it in the Plaza del Azoguejo, with traffic and people flowing around the base, you can only marvel at the skill of the engineers who built it almost two thousand years ago. The old town and the aqueduct were listed by UNESCO in 1985.
Read the complete Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of San Andrés.
San Andrés is among the oldest Romanesque churches in Ávila, and one of the first you meet if you come in from the north side of the walls. It stands near the great basilica of San Vicente, so that a single short walk gives you two good examples of how Ávila's builders handled granite, with thick walls, round arches and a modest scale that seems right for a place so exposed to wind. You can feel the age of it in the stonework without needing any dates.
Read the complete Church of San Andrés write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 156 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of San Andrés. Next is back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct, late in the day. Next is Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra. That is the ride.
Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra → Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct → Church of San Andrés is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of San Andrés → back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct → Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.