CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Buenos Aires it runs 328 km to Buenos Aires; allow about 6 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de, Maison du docteur Curutchet and back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de. It crosses from Argentina into Uruguay - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Buenos Aires is the capital that looks across a river wide enough to be mistaken for the sea. The Río de la Plata is brown, shallow and enormous, and the city that sits on its western shore has always seemed to face outward, toward Europe. Pedro de Mendoza first tried to found a settlement in 1536 and failed, and Juan de Garay refounded it in 1580. Since then the port has grown into one of the great cities of the southern hemisphere, with about thirteen million people in its wider area, wide avenues designed on a Parisian scale, and cafés that keep a table for you all afternoon.
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Buenos Aires is where the day begins. Next is Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de.
The ferry from Buenos Aires crosses the muddy, brown Rio de la Plata in about an hour, and when you arrive in Colonia del Sacramento, the city seems to have been kept in a jar. The Portuguese founded it in 1680 as a smuggling base to rival Spanish Buenos Aires on the opposite shore, and for the next century it was fought over by Portugal and Spain, passing from hand to hand. The old quarter on the peninsula is the result, with cobbled streets, low whitewashed houses with tiled roofs, and a mix of Portuguese and Spanish colonial styles. It was listed by UNESCO in 1995.
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Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de comes up 45 km in.
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90 km in you reach Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de. Next is Maison du docteur Curutchet.
La Plata is a city with an unusual origin: it was planned from scratch in the 1880s as the new capital of Buenos Aires province, after the old city of Buenos Aires was made a federal district. Its founder, Dardo Rocha, commissioned a grid of streets with diagonals cut across it, and plazas every six blocks, a design inspired by Washington and Paris. The result is a calm, tree-lined place with a vast neo-Gothic cathedral and a university tradition.
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Maison du docteur Curutchet, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de.
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back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de sits at 181 km, about halfway.
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back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de comes up 226 km in. Next is Buenos Aires.
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Buenos Aires closes the day.
Buenos Aires → Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de → Maison du docteur Curutchet is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Maison du docteur Curutchet → back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de → Buenos Aires is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.