CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Puebla it runs 280 km to Puebla; allow about 4 h 41 of riding. The stops in between: Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C, Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio, Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic and Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Puebla looks like an old Spanish painting that someone left in the sun. The colonial city, founded in 1531 on a plateau in central Mexico, has a historic centre of more than two thousand buildings covered in glazed tiles, baroque carving and bright paint, and UNESCO listed it in 1987. The street plan is a tidy grid around a large main square, the Zócalo, with a cathedral whose towers are among the tallest in the country. The ceramics called Talavera, white and blue earthenware painted with flowers, decorate churches, kitchens and fountains, and workshops in the city still make them by hand.
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Puebla is where the day begins. Next is Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C.
Tlaxcala has an unusual place in Mexican history, because its people were the main allies of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of the Aztec empire. The Tlaxcalans had resisted Aztec expansion for years, and when the Spanish arrived in 1519 they chose to fight with them rather than against them. In return, they received privileges, and the Franciscan friars who arrived soon after chose Tlaxcala as their first base on the mainland. The monastery and its church, begun in the sixteenth century, still stand above the town, a plain, massive building with a fine wooden ceiling in Moorish style.
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Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio.
Tochimilco sits high on the southern slopes of Popocatépetl, the great volcano that towers over central Mexico, and on clear mornings the snow-capped cone seems close enough to touch. Here, in the sixteenth century, Franciscan friars built a monastery dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, one of the early missions established to convert the indigenous population after the Spanish conquest. Its fortress-like church, with thick walls, battlements and a large atrium where crowds once gathered for open-air mass, is part of the UNESCO site of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl, listed in 1994. In the town square, an old aqueduct and fountain built by the friars still bring water from the mountain.
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At least about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
Hueyapan sits high on the southern flank of Popocatépetl, in the far northeast of Morelos, where pine forest and orchards climb toward the volcano and the air is noticeably thinner than in the valleys below. In the sixteenth century, Dominican friars built a convent here dedicated to Santo Domingo, with a simple church, a cloister and a walled atrium where the indigenous population gathered for worship. It is one of the fourteen sites in the UNESCO listing of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl, and while it is more modest than some of its neighbours, its setting is one of the most dramatic.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, about halfway. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
Tetela del Volcán lives in the shadow of Popocatépetl. The town sits at about two thousand metres on the southern slope of the volcano in the state of Morelos, and the snow-capped cone, often trailing a plume of steam and ash, looms over everything. In the middle of town stands the sixteenth-century church and former convent of San Juan Bautista, founded by Dominican friars in the decades after the Spanish conquest. Its cloister has some remarkable murals, painted in muted reds and blacks, showing saints and friars of the order. It is one of the fourteen monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that were added to the World Heritage list in 1994 as a group.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic comes up about 146 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. Next is back through Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C.
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back through Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C, late in the day. Next is Puebla.
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Read the complete Puebla write-up.
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The route ends here after 280 km.
Puebla → Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C → Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → back through Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C → Puebla is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.