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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From Santiago de Compostela it runs 307 km to Santiago de Compostela; allow about 5 h 06 of riding. The stops in between: Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Chemin de l’Intérieur, Remparts Romains de Lugo and back through Chemin de l’Intérieur. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The cathedral façade on the Obradoiro square is dark, baroque and enormous, but the thing that stays with you is the sound: a bagpiper in an archway, footsteps on wet granite and the tired cheers of pilgrims arriving after weeks on the road. Santiago has been the end of the Camino for over a thousand years, and arriving by motorbike is a very different pace, but the feeling in the square is the same. People hug, cry, take their boots off and lie flat on the paving stones.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela write-up.
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Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela is where the day begins. Next is Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
Pilgrims walking the Camino del Norte toward Santiago reach Sobrado dos Monxes tired and footsore, and the sight of the huge granite Baroque façade of the monastery, rising out of a quiet Galician village, must feel like a miracle. Sobrado was founded as a monastery in the tenth century, became Cistercian in the twelfth, and grew into one of the most powerful abbeys in Galicia. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the nineteenth century, it fell into ruin, until Cistercian monks returned in the 1950s and began restoring it. Today they run a pilgrim hostel in part of the buildings.
Read the complete Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes write-up.
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Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Chemin de l’Intérieur. Next is Remparts Romains de Lugo.
Lugo has a Roman wall, and unlike most Roman walls it has not turned into a fragment or a footnote. It runs around the entire old town, over two kilometres of it, built in the third century with dozens of towers, and it is still intact enough that you can walk the whole circuit on top. UNESCO listed it in 2000, saying it is the only completely preserved Roman defensive circuit in the world, and when you step up onto the walkway you can see why.
Read the complete Remparts Romains de Lugo write-up.
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Remparts Romains de Lugo, about halfway. Next is back through Chemin de l’Intérieur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chemin de l’Intérieur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chemin de l’Intérieur sits at 213 km, about halfway. Next is back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes comes up about 250 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela closes the day.
Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela → Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Chemin de l’Intérieur is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin de l’Intérieur → Remparts Romains de Lugo is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remparts Romains de Lugo → back through Chemin de l’Intérieur is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chemin de l’Intérieur → back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.