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 248 km to Santiago de Compostela; allow about 4 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Tower of Hercules and back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes. 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 Tower of Hercules.
On a rocky headland at the edge of A Coruña, a city of about two hundred and fifty thousand people on the north-west corner of Spain, stands a grey stone tower nearly fifty-five metres tall. It is the Tower of Hercules, and it is the oldest Roman lighthouse in the world still in use, which makes it a good deal older than almost anything else that works in Europe. UNESCO inscribed it in 2009.
Read the complete Tower of Hercules write-up.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Tower of Hercules. 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, late in the day. 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.
Back at Historic Centre of Santiago de Compostela. That is the ride.
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 → Tower of Hercules is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tower of Hercules → back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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.