Why this ride
From Montevideo it runs 90 km to Montevideo; allow about 1 h 45 of riding. It goes by way of The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church and back through The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Montevideo day out · The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 90 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 45
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Montevideo
Montevideo is a city that faces the water and sits down beside it. A long waterfront road, the Rambla, runs for about twenty-two kilometres along the river Plate, and on any evening the whole city seems to be on it, with people walking, jogging, fishing or sitting with a thermos of hot water and a gourd of mate, the bitter herbal tea that Uruguayans carry everywhere. The river is so wide here that it looks like the sea, though it is brown with silt, and the Atlantic begins farther east.
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Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Montevideo is where the day begins. Next is The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church.
2. The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church
A concrete wave stands beside the beach road in Atlántida, and it is a church. The Iglesia de Cristo Obrero y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, in the Estación Atlántida district, was designed by the Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste and finished in 1960. It is made entirely of brick, and its undulating walls ripple like fabric, rising to a sinuous roofline that seems to defy the material. Dieste used a technique he called reinforced ceramic, which allowed thin brick shells to span huge spaces with almost no thickness. The result is light, strong and beautiful, and in 2021 UNESCO added the church to the World Heritage list.
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Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church comes up 27 km in.
3. The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
54 km in you reach The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church. Next is back through The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church.
4. back through The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church, late in the day. Next is Montevideo.
5. Montevideo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Montevideo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Back at Montevideo. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Montevideo to The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church
Montevideo → The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church to Montevideo
back through The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church → Montevideo is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.