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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
428 km from Mérida to Mérida, about 5 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Old Town of Cáceres, Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup and back through Old Town of Cáceres. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 84 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Rafael Moneo's museum in Mérida is a building that makes Roman engineering look contemporary. Opened in 1986, it is built of thin Roman-style bricks in a set of tall arches that echo the arcades of the aqueducts, and as you walk inside the great central nave you feel as though you have wandered into an imaginary basilica. The architect won the Pritzker Prize in 1996, and this building is among the works that made his name. It stands on the site of Roman Emerita Augusta, and below it lie the remains of streets and houses, which you can visit on a lower level.
Read the complete National Museum of Roman Art write-up.
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National Museum of Roman Art is where the day begins. Next is Old Town of Cáceres.
Cáceres has an old town so complete that film crews treat it as a ready-made set, and walking its streets at dusk, when the stone glows amber and the crowds have gone, you can see why. Inside the walls, built largely by the Almohads in the twelfth century, are dozens of fortified mansions, towers, churches and palaces, many built by noble families who made their fortunes in the conquest of the Americas. The towers once had battlements, but Queen Isabella ordered most of them cut down to curb the nobles' power. UNESCO listed the old town in 1986.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
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Old Town of Cáceres comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup.
about 212 km into the recorded legs you reach Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup. Next is back through Old Town of Cáceres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Town of Cáceres, late in the day. Next is National Museum of Roman Art.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete National Museum of Roman Art write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at National Museum of Roman Art. That is the ride.
National Museum of Roman Art → Old Town of Cáceres is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Town of Cáceres → Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup → back through Old Town of Cáceres is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Town of Cáceres → National Museum of Roman Art is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.