Santander to Portugal and the Douro

Main roads

From the map

Longest gap between fuel

43 miles

Fuel stations near the line

168

Curvature

186 ° a mile

Campsites within 2 km

73

• The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 621 to mile 664. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
• The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 382 to mile 402, at 426 degrees of turning a mile.
• Passes: Puerto de San Glorio (1,599 m, mile 92), Puerto de Tarna (1,490 m, mile 127), Puerto de las Señales (1,627 m, mile 128), Collado de Somahoz (1,199 m, mile 750), Puerto de la Magdalena (1,022 m, mile 779).
• 27 motorcycle shops are within 3 km of the line.
• More routes from this port.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

• Portugal has electronic tolls on some main roads. This line keeps off them, but check if you change it.
• The line keeps off motorways and toll roads by design.
• Brittany Ferries sail to Santander from Portsmouth and Plymouth.

On the way

1. Santander
2. Panes
3. La Hermida
4. Potes
5. Puerto de San Glorio
6. Bonar
7. Astorga
8. Puebla de Sanabria
9. Braganca
10. Mirandela
11. Vila Real
12. Peso da Regua
13. Sao Joao da Pesqueira
14. Vila Nova de Foz Coa
15. Miranda do Douro
16. Zamora
17. Medina de Rioseco
18. Aguilar de Campoo
19. Reinosa
20. Santander

Split it into days

Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.

This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.