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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206 km from Lugo to Lugo, about 3 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Santiago de Compostela and back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Lugo is the only city in the world still completely surrounded by intact Roman walls. Built in the late third century, when the Roman Empire was under pressure from invasions, the walls run for more than two kilometres around the old town, with dozens of semicircular towers and ten gates, some Roman and some added later. They are wide enough at the top for a walkway, and walking the full circuit, with views over the rooftops of the old town on one side and the modern city on the other, is the best way to get a sense of the place. The walls were listed by UNESCO in 2000.
Read the complete Roman Walls of Lugo write-up.
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Roman Walls of Lugo is where the day begins. Next is Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
Pilgrims walking the Camino del Norte toward Santiago reach Sobrado dos Monxes tired and footsore, and the sight of the huge granite Baroque façade of the monastery, rising out of a quiet Galician village, must feel like a miracle. Sobrado was founded as a monastery in the tenth century, became Cistercian in the twelfth, and grew into one of the most powerful abbeys in Galicia. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the nineteenth century, it fell into ruin, until Cistercian monks returned in the 1950s and began restoring it. Today they run a pilgrim hostel in part of the buildings.
Read the complete Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes write-up.
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Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Santiago de Compostela.
Whatever time you arrive in Santiago de Compostela, you will probably find someone crying in the Praza do Obradoiro. They have walked for weeks, or days, or the last hundred kilometres the pilgrim rule requires, and the cathedral at the end of it is as big and golden as they hoped. Santiago has been the goal of the Camino since the ninth century, when a hermit was said to have found the tomb of the apostle James here, and the city grew up around the shrine. The cathedral you see now is largely Romanesque in its bones, with a baroque front that glows when it is not raining, which in Galicia is a fair part of the year.
Read the complete Santiago de Compostela write-up.
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about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Santiago de Compostela. Next is back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, late in the day. Next is Roman Walls of Lugo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roman Walls of Lugo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Roman Walls of Lugo. That is the ride.
Roman Walls of Lugo → Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Santiago de Compostela is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santiago de Compostela → back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Roman Walls of Lugo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.