Why this ride
From Tineo it runs 264 km to Tineo; allow about 4 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador, Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña, La Peña de Candamo and San Miguel de Lillo.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F and San Miguel de Lillo
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 264 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 19
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F is where the day begins. Next is Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña. Next is La Peña de Candamo.
4. La Peña de Candamo
In the hills above the Nalón valley in Asturias, a cave hides one of the great collections of Paleolithic art in Spain. The Cueva de la Peña de Candamo, near San Román de Candamo, was discovered in 1914 and contains paintings and engravings of horses, bison, deer, goats and other animals, made during the Upper Paleolithic, and a remarkable wall of engraved figures. It is part of the UNESCO listing of cave art in northern Spain, and unlike some other caves, it can be visited, though only in limited numbers and for part of the year, so book ahead.
Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
La Peña de Candamo, about halfway. Next is San Miguel de Lillo.
5. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
San Miguel de Lillo sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through La Peña de Candamo.
6. back through La Peña de Candamo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through La Peña de Candamo comes up about 165 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña.
7. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña. Next is back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador.
8. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador, late in the day. Next is Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F.
9. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 264 km.
Leg by leg
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F to Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador
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 to Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña
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 to La Peña de Candamo
Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña → La Peña de Candamo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Peña de Candamo to San Miguel de Lillo
La Peña de Candamo → San Miguel de Lillo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Miguel de Lillo to back through La Peña de Candamo
San Miguel de Lillo → back through La Peña de Candamo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Peña de Candamo to back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña
back through La Peña de Candamo → back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña to back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador
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 to Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino F
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.