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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270 km from Tineo to Tineo, about 3 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador, Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña, San Miguel de Lillo and back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña. The line favours views over speed.
Tineo sits on a ridge in western Asturias, and for pilgrims walking the Camino Primitivo it is the place where the real mountains begin. This is the oldest of the routes to Santiago, said to have been walked by King Alfonso II in the ninth century when he went from Oviedo to the tomb of St James, and it climbs from the green hills around Oviedo into a wilder landscape of ridges and valleys that separates Asturias from Galicia. The town itself has about 11,000 people, a handsome old centre, a church and a pilgrim hostel, and the Camino passes through it on the way west.
Read the complete Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F write-up.
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Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F is where the day begins. Next is Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador.
Pilgrims have been trudging past these walls for about a thousand years, which makes a motorcycle look like a rather recent idea. The monastery of San Salvador de Cornellana stands beside the Narcea river in central Asturias, on the old inland route to Santiago that runs west from Oviedo through Grado and Salas. It was founded in the eleventh century, passed to the Benedictines of Cluny, and the church that survives keeps Romanesque bones under later remodelling. The bulk of the cloister and the old monastic buildings give the little village a weight that seems out of proportion to its size.
Read the complete Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador write-up.
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Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña.
Soto de Luiña is a quiet parish in western Asturias, a short way inland from one of the wildest stretches of the Cantabrian coast, and its church of Santa María is the reason the village has a name beyond the region. The building is baroque, rebuilt in the eighteenth century around older foundations, and alongside it stands the former pilgrims' hospital that once took in walkers on the coastal Way of Saint James. The church's interior, with its gilded altarpieces, comes as a surprise in such a small place, and the whole ensemble gives a sense of how the Camino shaped even modest villages along the route.
Read the complete Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña. Next is San Miguel de Lillo.
The hill of Naranco rises just north of Oviedo, the capital of Asturias, and on its slope, among oaks and chestnuts, stand two small stone buildings that are among the oldest and strangest churches in Europe. San Miguel de Lillo is the smaller and the more battered, and it lies a few minutes above Santa María del Naranco, three kilometres from the middle of the city, in a green landscape of meadows and apple orchards.
Read the complete San Miguel de Lillo write-up.
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San Miguel de Lillo, about halfway. Next is back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador comes up about 241 km into the recorded legs. Next is Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F closes the day.
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F → Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador → Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña → San Miguel de Lillo is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Miguel de Lillo → back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña → back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador → Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.