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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273 km from Puebla to Puebla, about 4 h 58 of riding. It goes by way of Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th, Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t, Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat and back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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 comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t.
Ocuituco claims the first Augustinian convent built in Mexico, begun in the 1530s on the southern slopes of Popocatépetl, and the church of Santiago Apóstol with its cloister belongs to the same World Heritage group of early convents around the volcano as Cuernavaca's cathedral. Its cloister keeps a rare carved stone fountain, and the convent's thick walls and simple lines show the early, almost defensive style of the first missions.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat.
Zacualpan de Amilpas is a small town on the lower slopes of Popocatépetl in the state of Morelos, and its centre is dominated by a sixteenth-century convent built by Augustinian friars in the first decades after the Spanish conquest. The church and former convent of the Immaculate Conception belong to the group of early monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994, a chain of fortified religious houses that served as the base for the evangelisation of central Mexico.
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Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat, about halfway.
In the 1530s and 1540s, Augustinian friars arrived in the valleys below Popocatépetl to convert the local population, and they built churches that look half like cathedrals and half like castles. The convent of San Juan Bautista in Yecapixtla is one of the finest: a tall, fortress-like church with crenellated walls, a striking Gothic rose window over the entrance and a vast atrium where the indigenous congregation gathered for open-air services. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl, a group of fourteen convents across Morelos and Puebla.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th sits at 120 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat comes up about 164 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t.
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about 185 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th, late in the day. Next is Puebla.
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The route ends here after 273 km.
Puebla → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 25 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 the Immaculat is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 6 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Puebla is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.