CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Mexico City it runs 472 km to Mexico City; allow about 7 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Former college of San Francisco Javier in, Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan, Ancient Convent of the Nativity and back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Mexico City is a lot of things at once: enormous, high, noisy, beautiful, tiring, and endlessly generous. About twenty million people live in its metropolitan area, at an altitude of roughly 2,240 metres, in a basin ringed by volcanoes that rarely show themselves through the haze. It stands on the bed of an old lake, and on that lake the Mexica built Tenochtitlan in the fourteenth century, a city of canals and causeways that astonished the Spanish when they arrived in 1519.
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Mexico City is where the day begins. Next is Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
Tepotzotlán is a Pueblo Mágico just off the highway north of Mexico City, and its heart is a building that stops you in your tracks. The old Jesuit college of San Francisco Javier was a training centre for the order in New Spain, a place where novices learned theology and native languages before being sent out across the colony. When the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 the college passed to others, and today it houses the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, one of the best collections of colonial art in the country. It also forms part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the silver road that ran north from the capital towards Santa Fe, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010.
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Former college of San Francisco Javier in comes up 53 km in. Next is Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
When the Aztecs came across Teotihuacan, centuries after it had been abandoned, they thought it must have been built by gods and named it the place where the gods were made. The city had reached its peak between about the first and sixth centuries, with perhaps well over a hundred thousand people, a grid of streets, apartment compounds and some of the largest pyramids in the Americas. The Pyramid of the Sun is a huge stepped mass, and the Pyramid of the Moon sits at the far end of the Avenue of the Dead, a long, broad processional road that makes the city feel grand even now.
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105 km in you reach Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan. Next is Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
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Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan, about halfway. Next is Ancient Convent of the Nativity.
Tepoztlán sits at the foot of a wall of jagged volcanic cliffs in northern Morelos, and on the highest ridge above town, a small Aztec pyramid, the Tepozteco, dedicated to the god of pulque, clings to the rock. Down in the town, the Dominican convent of the Nativity, built in the mid-sixteenth century, is one of the monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl listed by UNESCO in 1994. Its massive church, with a facade carved with angels, the sun and the moon, and a large atrium, is impressive, and the cloister has remains of colourful mural paintings. Part of the convent houses a museum.
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Ancient Convent of the Nativity sits at 210 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
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back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan comes up 263 km in. Next is back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
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315 km in you reach back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan. Next is back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
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back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in, late in the day. Next is Mexico City.
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The route ends here after 472 km.
Mexico City → Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former college of San Francisco Javier in → Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan → Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ancient Convent of the Nativity → back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan → back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in → Mexico City is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.