Spain·2026

Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is a hilly Atlantic city where running means navigating cobbled medieval streets and forest trails through Galician eucalyptus and oak. The surrounding terrain offers serious mountain bike racing—the Camelia en BTT polo Val do Ulla and Ruta BTT do Lacón are established 60–76km events that exploit the rolling granite hills and river valleys of inland Galicia, with consistent 400–600m elevation gains. Road runners gravitate to the Camino routes and park loops, but cyclists treating this as a base head east or south into the Sierras for technical single-track and sustained climbs.