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 Oviedo it runs 146 km to Oviedo; allow about 2 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of La Peña de Candamo, Chemin Primitif and back through La Peña de Candamo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Oviedo has a tiny fountain that is older than almost everything else in the city, and it sits in a gap between two streets a few steps from the cathedral. La Foncalada, a little stone building with a gabled front and a pool inside, was built in the ninth century in the time of King Alfonso III, and it is the only surviving civil building of the Asturian pre-Romanesque style in the capital. Water from a spring still flows through it, and a pilgrim on the Camino Primitivo, the oldest of the routes to Santiago, passes by on the way through town. It is easy to walk past without noticing, which would be a pity.
Read the complete La Foncalada write-up.
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La Foncalada is where the day begins. Next is La Peña de Candamo.
In the hills above the Nalón valley in Asturias, a cave hides one of the great collections of Paleolithic art in Spain. The Cueva de la Peña de Candamo, near San Román de Candamo, was discovered in 1914 and contains paintings and engravings of horses, bison, deer, goats and other animals, made during the Upper Paleolithic, and a remarkable wall of engraved figures. It is part of the UNESCO listing of cave art in northern Spain, and unlike some other caves, it can be visited, though only in limited numbers and for part of the year, so book ahead.
Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
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La Peña de Candamo comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chemin Primitif.
Tineo stands on a hillside above the green valleys of western Asturias, and it is one of the main stops on the Camino Primitivo, the original Way of St James. According to tradition, it was King Alfonso II of Asturias who first walked from Oviedo to Santiago in the ninth century to see the tomb, newly found, of the apostle, and the route he took became the Primitivo. It is the hardest of the Caminos, crossing mountain after mountain, and the pilgrims you meet here, wet, muddy and cheerful, are a special breed.
Read the complete Chemin Primitif write-up.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Chemin Primitif. Next is back through La Peña de Candamo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La Peña de Candamo, late in the day. Next is La Foncalada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Foncalada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at La Foncalada. That is the ride.
La Foncalada → La Peña de Candamo is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Peña de Candamo → Chemin Primitif is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin Primitif → back through La Peña de Candamo is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Peña de Candamo → La Foncalada is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.