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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293 km from Grado to Grado, about 4 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of San Miguel de Lillo, Santa Cristina de Lena, Eglise San Salvador and back through Santa Cristina de Lena. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is San Miguel de Lillo.
The hill of Naranco rises just north of Oviedo, the capital of Asturias, and on its slope, among oaks and chestnuts, stand two small stone buildings that are among the oldest and strangest churches in Europe. San Miguel de Lillo is the smaller and the more battered, and it lies a few minutes above Santa María del Naranco, three kilometres from the middle of the city, in a green landscape of meadows and apple orchards.
Read the complete San Miguel de Lillo write-up.
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San Miguel de Lillo comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Santa Cristina de Lena.
On a grassy knoll above the Lena valley, south of Oviedo, stands a tiny stone church that has watched over the main road between Asturias and Castile for more than a thousand years. Santa Cristina de Lena is one of the jewels of Asturian pre-Romanesque architecture, built in the ninth century when the little Christian kingdom of Asturias was the only part of Iberia outside Muslim rule. Its unusual plan, with a raised presbytery behind an arcade of carved arches, and its finely worked stone screens are unique. Together with Santa María del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo in Oviedo, it is part of a World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Santa Cristina de Lena write-up.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Santa Cristina de Lena. Next is Eglise San Salvador.
Tucked into a narrow valley a few kilometres south of Villaviciosa, the little church of San Salvador de Valdediós is one of the jewels of Asturian pre-Romanesque architecture. Locals call it El Conventín, the little convent, and it was consecrated at the end of the ninth century under King Alfonso III, during the period when the small Kingdom of Asturias was the only Christian state in Iberia not under Muslim rule. Its tall, narrow nave, round arches and delicate stone lattice windows give it a strangely intimate atmosphere.
Read the complete Eglise San Salvador write-up.
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Eglise San Salvador, about halfway. Next is back through Santa Cristina de Lena.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santa Cristina de Lena write-up.
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back through Santa Cristina de Lena sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through San Miguel de Lillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Miguel de Lillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through San Miguel de Lillo comes up about 259 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
La Peña de Candamo closes the day.
La Peña de Candamo → San Miguel de Lillo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Miguel de Lillo → Santa Cristina de Lena is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santa Cristina de Lena → Eglise San Salvador is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Eglise San Salvador → back through Santa Cristina de Lena is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Santa Cristina de Lena → back through San Miguel de Lillo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Miguel de Lillo → La Peña de Candamo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.