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.
A 391 km round trip from Segovia - roughly 6 h 04 in the saddle. The stops in between: Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo, University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá and back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 74 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Roman aqueduct of Segovia strides through the middle of the city on two tiers of granite arches, nearly thirty metres high at its tallest point, built without a drop of mortar, the stones held together by their own weight. It was probably built around the end of the first century or early second century AD, and it carried water to the city until well into modern times. Standing beneath it in the Plaza del Azoguejo, with traffic and people flowing around the base, you can only marvel at the skill of the engineers who built it almost two thousand years ago. The old town and the aqueduct were listed by UNESCO in 1985.
Read the complete Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is where the day begins. Next is Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo.
Beech trees at the southern edge of their range look different from the northern kind, and anyone who has stood in the Hayedo de Montejo in October will tell you why. This is a small forest on the northern slopes of the Sierra del Rincón, in the far north of the Madrid region, above the village of Montejo de la Sierra, and it is the southernmost beech wood in Europe of its type. It survives in a cool, damp pocket left over from the last Ice Age, and in 2017 it was added to the UNESCO list of ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
Read the complete Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo write-up.
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Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo comes up about 88 km into the recorded legs. Next is University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá.
Alcalá de Henares has a talent for producing writers. Miguel de Cervantes was born here in 1547, and a house museum in the old town commemorates him. The university, founded by Cardinal Cisneros in 1499, was one of the earliest planned university towns in Europe and a model for institutions in the Americas, and its Renaissance and Baroque buildings, with their stone façades and courtyards, are the core of the UNESCO listing that Alcalá received in 1998 for its university and historic precinct. The Paraninfo, the ceremonial hall, is where the Cervantes Prize is presented each year.
Read the complete University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 196 km into the recorded legs you reach University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá. Next is back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo, late in the day. Next is Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct. That is the ride.
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct → Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo → University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá → back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hayedos de Ayllon - Montejo → Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.