CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Riaza it runs 529 km to Riaza; allow about 8 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo, Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct, Monastery and Site of the Escurial and back through Monastery and Site of the Escurial. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 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. 74 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.
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Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra is where the day begins. Next is Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo.
Beech trees at the southern edge of their range look different from the northern kind, and anyone who has stood in the Hayedo de Montejo in October will tell you why. This is a small forest on the northern slopes of the Sierra del Rincón, in the far north of the Madrid region, above the village of Montejo de la Sierra, and it is the southernmost beech wood in Europe of its type. It survives in a cool, damp pocket left over from the last Ice Age, and in 2017 it was added to the UNESCO list of ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
Read the complete Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo write-up.
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Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo comes up 52 km in. 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.
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103 km in you reach Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct. Next is Monastery and Site of the Escurial.
Philip II began the monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in 1563 and it was finished in 1584, a short time for a building of its size. It sits on the southern slope of the Sierra de Guadarrama, about fifty kilometres north-west of Madrid, and the two towns beside it, San Lorenzo de El Escorial and El Escorial, are small, tidy and slightly prosperous, living partly off the building that gave them their name.
Read the complete Monastery and Site of the Escurial write-up.
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Monastery and Site of the Escurial, about halfway.
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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 sits at 206 km, about halfway. Next is back through Monastery and Site of the Escurial.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monastery and Site of the Escurial write-up.
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back through Monastery and Site of the Escurial comes up 258 km in. 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.
309 km in you reach back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct. Next is back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo write-up.
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back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo, 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.
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The route ends here after 529 km.
Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra → Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo → Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct → Monastery and Site of the Escurial is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monastery and Site of the Escurial → Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct → back through Monastery and Site of the Escurial is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monastery and Site of the Escurial → back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct → back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo → Hayedos de Ayllon - Tejera Negra is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.