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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130 km from Barri Gòtic to Barri Gòtic, about 2 h 14 of riding. On the way it passes Crypt at the Colònia Güell, Cova dels Segarulls and back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 18 km this is Monserrat Mountain Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Palau de la Música Catalana is hidden. It stands on a narrow street in the old quarter of Barcelona, so close to the buildings opposite that you cannot step back far enough to take it in, and it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society that was the pride of Catalan cultural life at a time when Catalonia was finding its voice again. Lluís Domènech i Montaner designed it, and he threw everything at it: brick, mosaic, ceramics, sculpted flowers, stained glass, an iron frame so open that the walls are almost glass.
Read the complete Palau de la Música Catalana write-up.
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Palau de la Música Catalana is where the day begins. Next is Crypt at the Colònia Güell.
Few people ride out of Barcelona expecting to find Gaudí in a mill village, but that is exactly what waits at Santa Coloma de Cervelló, a short hop up the Llobregat from Sant Boi. The Colònia Güell was a textile colony founded by the industrialist Eusebi Güell, who moved his cotton works out of the city in the 1890s and built housing, a school, shops and a theatre for the workers around the factory. He asked his friend Antoni Gaudí for a church. Gaudí spent about ten years on the design and its foundations, and when money and the Güell family's enthusiasm ran out around 1914, only the lower level had been finished. That crypt is what you come to see.
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Crypt at the Colònia Güell comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova dels Segarulls.
The vineyards of the Penedès roll out in every direction from Vilafranca, and the Cova dels Segarulls lies among them, a few kilometres outside the town in the low hills toward the coastal range.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova dels Segarulls. Next is back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Crypt at the Colònia Güell write-up.
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back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell, late in the day. Next is Palau de la Música Catalana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palau de la Música Catalana write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Palau de la Música Catalana. That is the ride.
Palau de la Música Catalana → Crypt at the Colònia Güell is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crypt at the Colònia Güell → Cova dels Segarulls is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova dels Segarulls → back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crypt at the Colònia Güell → Palau de la Música Catalana is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.