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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From Santiago de Compostela it runs 321 km to Santiago de Compostela; allow about 5 h 20 of riding. The stops in between: Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Chemin de l’Intérieur, Cathedrale de Mondonedo and back through Chemin de l’Intérieur. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 57 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Conxo sits on the southern edge of Santiago de Compostela, in the green hollows that surround the pilgrim city, and its monastery has a history that is quieter and sadder than the cathedral's. The old religious house was repurposed in the nineteenth century as a psychiatric hospital, one of the first of its kind in Galicia, and it spent much of the modern era in that role. The complex sits among trees and low stone walls, and what you notice most is how calm and shut away it feels, only a couple of kilometres from the crowds around the Obradoiro square.
Read the complete Santa Maria del Conxo Monastery write-up.
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Santa Maria del Conxo Monastery 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 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chemin de l’Intérieur.
Pilgrims have been crossing this green upland of Galicia on their way to Santiago de Compostela for more than a thousand years, and the scallop-shell waymarkers still guide them through the villages around Vilalba and Guitiriz. This is the Terra Chá, the flat land, a high plateau in the north of the province of Lugo where the northern pilgrim routes come down from the Cantabrian coast toward the interior. The Ways of Saint James in northern Spain are part of a UNESCO listing that recognises not only the famous French Way but also the coastal and inland routes that run through this region.
Read the complete Chemin de l’Intérieur write-up.
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about 105 km into the recorded legs you reach Chemin de l’Intérieur. Next is Cathedrale de Mondonedo.
Mondoñedo is a small cathedral city in the north of Galicia, tucked into a green valley of the Masma river between the Cantabrian coast and the hills of the interior. With barely five thousand people it is one of the smallest places in Spain to have a cathedral, and the building is the reason the town exists. It was begun in the late twelfth century and finished over several centuries, with a Romanesque core, Gothic vaults and a Baroque west front with two towers. Inside, there are medieval wall paintings in the cloister and a fine stone choir, and the whole is built from the grey local granite, which turns green with lichen and gold in the evening sun.
Read the complete Cathedrale de Mondonedo write-up.
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Cathedrale de Mondonedo, about halfway. Next is back through Chemin de l’Intérieur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chemin de l’Intérieur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chemin de l’Intérieur sits at 219 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 261 km into the recorded legs. Next is Santa Maria del Conxo Monastery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santa Maria del Conxo Monastery write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Santa Maria del Conxo Monastery closes the day.
Santa Maria del Conxo Monastery → Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Chemin de l’Intérieur is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin de l’Intérieur → Cathedrale de Mondonedo is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cathedrale de Mondonedo → back through Chemin de l’Intérieur is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chemin de l’Intérieur → back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Santa Maria del Conxo Monastery is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.