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 450 km to Oviedo; allow about 7 h 15 of riding. It goes by way of Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F, Las Médulas and back through Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
La Foncalada is where the day begins. Next is Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F.
Tineo sits on a ridge in western Asturias, and for pilgrims walking the Camino Primitivo it is the place where the real mountains begin. This is the oldest of the routes to Santiago, said to have been walked by King Alfonso II in the ninth century when he went from Oviedo to the tomb of St James, and it climbs from the green hills around Oviedo into a wilder landscape of ridges and valleys that separates Asturias from Galicia. The town itself has about 11,000 people, a handsome old centre, a church and a pilgrim hostel, and the Camino passes through it on the way west.
Read the complete Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Médulas.
Walk into Las Médulas on a clear autumn morning and you meet a strange kind of silence. The red crags stand around you like the ruins of a cathedral built from clay, and the chestnut trees, some of them centuries old, drop their husks onto the path. It is a landscape made by an empire and then forgotten by it, left to grow over for nearly two thousand years.
Read the complete Las Médulas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 223 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Médulas. Next is back through Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F, 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 → Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F → Las Médulas is 161 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Las Médulas → back through Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F is 165 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F → La Foncalada is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.