The Driver's Roadbook · Spain, Portugal and Andorra · on sale shortly

Almost none of these roads has a toll. What stops you is a gate with a date on it.

44 driving roads across the peninsula and Mallorca, one page each: what the road is like to drive, what stands between you and it this year, when you may drive it, up to four places worth stopping for, and a button that opens the whole route in Google Maps. 1,300 km of road, every line drawn from OpenStreetMap and checked to reach the towns its page names.

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Page 2 of the book: the key map

Roads

Spain, Portugal and Andorra

Road

1,300 km

measured, not rounded up

GPX files

one per open road

Season

2026

access rules, tolls and closures

Price

€26.99

one download, VAT included; checkout being set up

Why these roads

The gate is not a toll

Of the roads shortlisted for this book, the number with a toll on the road itself is zero. What closes an Iberian road is a national park that bans cars for five months, a landslide that shuts a pass from February to June, or a barrier below the summit that has stood since 1989. Each page's third cell says which.

Dates from the bodies that set them

Cap de Formentor is closed to private cars from 15 May to 18 October, 10:00 to 22:00, with fines of 100 to 200 euros: that is the DGT's page and the Consell de Mallorca's notice, not a villa-rental site. The Covadonga lakes plan is the Principado's. Where a page's source is a travel site, the page says so.

A line that reaches the town it names

Every one of the 44 tracks was measured against the endpoints printed under its map. Where the map and the road disagreed, the road won: the Velefique climb was drawn on the wrong road for three days before the extract said otherwise.

Try five roads first

The same two files cut to five roads. No email address asked for: the pack is not on sale, so there is nothing to sell you afterwards.

The five-road PDF The five-road pack, with the GPX tracks

What this book does not do

It is a draft, and it says so on every page

The roads are chosen, the tracks drawn and the stops checked; the writing is being reviewed. Until the book is on sale this page carries no price and asks for nothing.

The book is in English

The road names print as the signs spell them, in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan; the prose is English.

Twelve high points are not measured

They print Not measured rather than a guess: valley and coast roads have no pass and no summit to name one, and this book has no elevation model to invent one from.

The 44 roads

Names as the book prints them. No drive scores here: they are part of what the book is.

Spain 31

Añisclo CanyonAragón30.4 kmopen

Bonaigua PassCatalunya40.9 kmopen

Canto PassCatalunya45.6 kmopen

Cap de FormentorMallorca18.8 kmopen

Cares Gorge to SotresAsturias17.0 kmopen

Costa Brava CornicheCatalunya21.3 kmopen

Creueta PassCatalunya26.6 kmopen

Guadalest RoadAlicante40.0 kmopen

Hermida GorgeCantabria27.7 kmopen

Ibañeta PassNavarra17.6 kmopen

Irati Forest RoadNavarra24.4 kmopen

La Ragua PassGranada29.1 kmopen

Lakes of CovadongaAsturias12.8 kmopen

Las HurdesExtremadura26.0 kmopen

Navacerrada PassMadrid25.9 kmopen

Pajares PassAsturias34.0 kmopen

Palomas PassCádiz14 kmopen

Peña de FranciaCastilla y León18.7 kmopen

Pico PassCastilla y León13.6 kmopen

Ronda RoadMálaga50.3 kmopen

Sa CalobraMallorca12.2 kmopen

San Glorio PassCantabria36.8 kmopen

Sierra Nevada RoadGranada35.7 kmopen

Sierra de GataExtremadura38.6 kmopen

Sobrarbe AxisAragón27.3 kmopen

Somiedo and La FarraponaAsturias25.2 kmopen

The AlpujarrasGranada34.2 kmopen

The Dream RoadCantabria25.8 kmopen

Tramuntana Coast RoadMallorca110.5 kmopen

Valdeón PassesCastilla y León12.5 kmopen

VelefiqueAlmería25.0 kmopen

Portugal 12

Alvão Mountain RoadNorte31.4 kmopen

Arrábida EscarpmentSetúbal28.1 kmopen

Douro InternacionalNorte46.2 kmopen

Douro River RoadNorte23.4 kmopen

Gerês Park RoadNorte14.8 kmopen

MarãoNorte49.5 kmopen

Monchique and FóiaAlgarve29.5 kmopen

Sintra CoastLisboa22.2 kmopen

The Minho CrossingNorte11.4 kmopen

The N2 over the LousãCentro42.8 kmopen

Torre RoadCentro27.8 kmopen

Zêzere Glacial ValleyCentro28.1 kmopen

Andorra 1

Envalira PassAndorra25.9 kmopen

Questions

When can I buy it?

When the review is done. This page will carry a price and a button the same day, and the shelf will say so. No date has been earned yet.

Is it the same book as the Alps one?

The same two files and the same page, with a different third cell: where the Alps book prints a toll, this one prints what actually stands in the way, because here that is almost never a toll.

Which cities is it close to?

Measured in a straight line: Porto has 9 of the roads inside 150 km, Coimbra 7, Granada 5, Barcelona 4, Palma 3, Madrid 2, Lisbon 2. It is strong in the north and around Granada, and thin around Madrid.

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