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 Oviedo it runs 256 km to Oviedo; allow about 3 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Santa Cristina de Lena, Chemin Primitif and back through Santa Cristina de Lena. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
There is a point on the road up Monte Naranco where Oviedo suddenly appears below you, and it is nothing like what you imagined. Spread across a valley of green hills, the capital of Asturias looks more like a country town than a city of two hundred thousand, with the cathedral tower in the middle and the sea hidden somewhere beyond the ridge. The hillside is a ride of about three kilometres from the centre, steady and winding, and it leads to one of Spain's best-loved medieval buildings.
Read the complete Santa María del Naranco write-up.
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Santa María del Naranco is where the day begins. Next is Santa Cristina de Lena.
On a grassy knoll above the Lena valley, south of Oviedo, stands a tiny stone church that has watched over the main road between Asturias and Castile for more than a thousand years. Santa Cristina de Lena is one of the jewels of Asturian pre-Romanesque architecture, built in the ninth century when the little Christian kingdom of Asturias was the only part of Iberia outside Muslim rule. Its unusual plan, with a raised presbytery behind an arcade of carved arches, and its finely worked stone screens are unique. Together with Santa María del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo in Oviedo, it is part of a World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Santa Cristina de Lena write-up.
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Santa Cristina de Lena comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chemin Primitif.
Tineo stands on a hillside above the green valleys of western Asturias, and it is one of the main stops on the Camino Primitivo, the original Way of St James. According to tradition, it was King Alfonso II of Asturias who first walked from Oviedo to Santiago in the ninth century to see the tomb, newly found, of the apostle, and the route he took became the Primitivo. It is the hardest of the Caminos, crossing mountain after mountain, and the pilgrims you meet here, wet, muddy and cheerful, are a special breed.
Read the complete Chemin Primitif write-up.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Chemin Primitif. Next is back through Santa Cristina de Lena.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santa Cristina de Lena write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Santa Cristina de Lena, late in the day. Next is Santa María del Naranco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santa María del Naranco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Santa María del Naranco. That is the ride.
Santa María del Naranco → Santa Cristina de Lena is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santa Cristina de Lena → Chemin Primitif is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Chemin Primitif → back through Santa Cristina de Lena is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Santa Cristina de Lena → Santa María del Naranco is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.