CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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259 km from Oviedo to Oviedo, about 4 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of La Peña de Candamo, Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña, Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador and Chemin Primitif. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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.
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La Peña de Candamo comes up 26 km in. 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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51 km in you reach Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña. 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, about halfway. 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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Chemin Primitif sits at 102 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.
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back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador comes up 128 km in. Next is back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña.
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Read the complete Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña write-up.
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153 km in you reach back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña. Next is back through La Peña de Candamo.
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Read the complete La Peña de Candamo write-up.
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back through La Peña de Candamo, late in the day. Next is Santa María del Naranco.
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Read the complete Santa María del Naranco write-up.
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The route ends here after 259 km.
Santa María del Naranco → La Peña de Candamo is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La Peña de Candamo → Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña → Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador → Chemin Primitif is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin Primitif → back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Eglise et Monastère de San Salvador → back through Eglise Santa Maria de Soto de Luiña is 24 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 La Peña de Candamo is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La Peña de Candamo → Santa María del Naranco is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.