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 A Coruña it runs 327 km to A Coruña; allow about 5 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Chemin de l’Intérieur, Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes, Cathédral de Lugo and back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
On a rocky headland at the edge of A Coruña, a city of about two hundred and fifty thousand people on the north-west corner of Spain, stands a grey stone tower nearly fifty-five metres tall. It is the Tower of Hercules, and it is the oldest Roman lighthouse in the world still in use, which makes it a good deal older than almost anything else that works in Europe. UNESCO inscribed it in 2009.
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Tower of Hercules is where the day begins. 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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Chemin de l’Intérieur comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 118 km into the recorded legs you reach Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes. Next is Cathédral de Lugo.
Lugo is one of those cities that tells you its age before you have parked. A ring of Roman wall, two kilometres of it and still complete, circles the old town, and walking along the top is the best way to understand why UNESCO listed it. The Romans founded Lucus Augusti here at the end of the first century before Christ, drawn by hot springs on the Miño river, and the baths are still in use by the riverside. The wall's gates, rebuilt and re-cut many times, let you walk in and out of the old quarter as people have for nearly two thousand years.
Read the complete Cathédral de Lugo write-up.
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Cathédral de Lugo, 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 sits at 209 km, 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 comes up about 255 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tower of Hercules.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tower of Hercules write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tower of Hercules closes the day.
Tower of Hercules → Chemin de l’Intérieur is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chemin de l’Intérieur → Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → Cathédral de Lugo is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cathédral de Lugo → back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes → back through Chemin de l’Intérieur is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chemin de l’Intérieur → Tower of Hercules is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.