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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A 425 km round trip from Mérida - roughly 5 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Old Town of Cáceres, Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup and back through Old Town of Cáceres. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 84 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Romans took bathing seriously, and the evidence is everywhere in Mérida. This particular bath complex was found beneath an ordinary street, as so much of the city's Roman heritage is, and it is typical of what the town offers: a modest excavation tucked into the urban fabric, a few steps down from the pavement, where you can look at brick floors, the channels under them and the stubs of walls that once held hot air. It is not a grand imperial bath of the kind that fills a city block. It is a neighbourhood facility, and that is its charm.
Read the complete Thermal Baths at Reyes Huertas St. write-up.
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Thermal Baths at Reyes Huertas St. is where the day begins. Next is Old Town of Cáceres.
Cáceres has an old town so complete that film crews treat it as a ready-made set, and walking its streets at dusk, when the stone glows amber and the crowds have gone, you can see why. Inside the walls, built largely by the Almohads in the twelfth century, are dozens of fortified mansions, towers, churches and palaces, many built by noble families who made their fortunes in the conquest of the Americas. The towers once had battlements, but Queen Isabella ordered most of them cut down to curb the nobles' power. UNESCO listed the old town in 1986.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
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Old Town of Cáceres comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup.
about 212 km into the recorded legs you reach Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup. Next is back through Old Town of Cáceres.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Town of Cáceres write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Town of Cáceres, late in the day. Next is Thermal Baths at Reyes Huertas St., 102 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Thermal Baths at Reyes Huertas St. write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Thermal Baths at Reyes Huertas St.. That is the ride.
Thermal Baths at Reyes Huertas St. → Old Town of Cáceres is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Town of Cáceres → Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalup → back through Old Town of Cáceres is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Town of Cáceres → Thermal Baths at Reyes Huertas St. is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.