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Cycle Touring in Spain - European cycling guide

Cover of Cycle Touring in Spain
Availability
Reprinted
Cover
Paperback - Laminated
Published
11 Oct 2006
Edition
First
ISBN
9781852843816
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ISBN (10)
1852843810
Size
17.2 x 11.6 x 1.5cm
Weight
350g
Pages
288
No. Maps
29
No. Photos
72
Originally Published
1 Jul 2003

Cycle Touring in Spain

by Harry Dowdell

Guidebook to eight 1-2 week cycle routes covering the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa in the north, the Sierras of Demanda, Gredos and Guadarama in central Spain, and the Sierras of Nevada and Grazalama and the Serrania de Ronda in the South. Varying in difficulty, with options to shorten or lengthen stages or go off-road. More...

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Seasons

Year round, depending upon how much heat you can cope with!

Centres

Malaga, Ronda, Granada, Sevilla, Cordoba, Madrid, Segovia, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Girona, Llanes

Difficulty

Difficulty varies according to the terrain - so some tours have difficult sections, some may be Read More... more challenging throughout. In most cases there are suggestions for alternative routes.

Must See

Discovering the ‘real’ Spain inland from the tourist centres. A world of villages, small towns and Read More... vibrant cities, wooded hills, narrow gorges, moorish palaces, Roman ruins, cave paintings, art, olives and oranges.
 
 

The Instituto Geográfico Nacional produces two series of maps at 1:200 000. The scale and level of detail is just right for cycling: they show all roads including most forest and other major tracks, rivers, contours at 100m and most geographical features. There are two caveats: changes to the road networks are not updated very quickly, and town details can be very poor. The two series show the same level of detail but are presented differently.

The series of Mapa Provincial cover the whole of Spain on a province-by-province basis. Within each province boundary the map has all the detail listed above, but outside only the road system is continued and sometimes the contours, but not vegetation detail.

The series of Mapa Guía only covers the more popular areas, but do not suffer a drop-off in detail at provincial borders. Stanfords of Long Acre in London (020-7836 1321 or www.stanfords.co.uk) is a good stockist.

The other maps worth considering are Michelin orange 1:400 000, which show all the public roads along with some limited topographic detail. They are revised annually so try and get an up-to-date one, otherwise new roads may be missing. These maps are widely available in bookshops.

Other useful maps are detailed in the text where relevant.


 

 
 
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