Alto de l'Angliru cycling climb map

by Sidney van den Boogaard

The Angliru starts like a trap. From La Vega in Riosa the first five kilometres to Viapará are almost reasonable – then the mountain shows its teeth. The last six or seven kilometres are brutal, with ramps famous enough to have names: Les Cabanes at 22 percent, Les Picones, El Aviru and, about three kilometres from the top, the Cueña les Cabres at 23.5 percent, where you crawl rather than ride. At 1573 metres the green mountains of Asturias spread out below you. Since 1999 a grand-tour stage has finished here ten times. For the wall of anyone who has ever wondered how steep steep can get.

This work is part of the Legendary Climbs collection: the most famous climbs in road cycling, from the Alps and the Pyrenees to the short, steep hills of Flanders and Limburg. Each climb is drawn from the real road, with the elevation profile coloured per kilometre and, along the bottom, the length, elevation gain, average and maximum gradient and the summit.

The road is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the profile from Copernicus elevation data (EU-DEM). A great gift for any cyclist, to hang next to the bike or as a goal for next season.