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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A 450 km round trip from Oviedo - roughly 7 h 09 in the saddle. The stops in between: Chemin Primitif, Las Médulas and back through Chemin Primitif. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Oviedo is a capital that started as a monastery. In the early ninth century King Alfonso II of Asturias moved his court here, built a church dedicated to the Saviour, and began to create a little kingdom out of the mountains that had resisted the Moors, and the buildings that followed form one of the most distinctive groups of early medieval architecture in Europe. UNESCO lists the Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias, and the best of them stand on the slopes of Monte Naranco, above the city: Santa María del Naranco, a palace hall of King Ramiro I built in the 840s and later used as a church, and San Miguel de Lillo, a slender church nearby.
Read the complete Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the write-up.
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Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the is where the day begins. 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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Chemin Primitif 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.
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about 224 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Médulas. Next is back through Chemin Primitif.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chemin Primitif write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chemin Primitif, late in the day. Next is Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the. That is the ride.
Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the → Chemin Primitif is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin Primitif → Las Médulas is 162 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Las Médulas → back through Chemin Primitif is 165 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chemin Primitif → Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.