Castle of Miranda de Ebro
Castle in Castile and León, Spain.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: DEb 109, CC BY-SA 3.0Through the gorges of northern Burgos to Haro and Laguardia in the Rioja, east to Jaca and Torla, along the narrow Anisclo canyon road, through the Bielsa tunnel into France for the Aspin, Tourmalet and Aubisque, then the Roncal and Salazar valleys and the Basque coast home.
At 150 to 300 miles a day, this is 3 to 6 days of riding. Set your own daily distance and add rest days.
Plotted by us, not yet ridden
Starts at Santander ferry port
Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date.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.
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.
This route starts where the boat or train lands at Santander. Book the bike as a motorcycle, not a car.
Split the route into days above and each day gets its own bed search for where it ends.
Back to the daysCheck your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.
What to check before you buy coverWhat GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.
On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.
Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Castle in Castile and León, Spain.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: DEb 109, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cultural property in Estella, Spain.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Josep Renalias, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain pass.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5
Mountain pass.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Bebb83, Public domain
Mountain pass.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Anthospace, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cathedral located in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in France.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Jibi44, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain pass.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Berndt Fernow, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cultural property in Pamplona, Spain.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cave in Vizkay with prehistoric paintures in Spain.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: ETOR Entziklopedia, CC BY 3.0Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.