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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A 98 km round trip from Tepoztlán - roughly 1 h 55 in the saddle. The stops in between: Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th and back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
Tlayacapan lies in the north of Morelos, among dry hills, with Popocatépetl, the smoking volcano, standing in the distance. Its convent of San Juan Bautista is one of a number of fortress-like monasteries built by Augustinian, Franciscan and Dominican friars in the sixteenth century, within a few decades of the Spanish conquest, and they are among the earliest European buildings in the Americas. UNESCO listed the group in 1994. The church has a plain, heavy front and an open-air chapel, where the friars preached to crowds who were not yet used to indoor services.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th write-up.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th, late in the day. Next is Ancient Convent of the Nativity.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ancient Convent of the Nativity write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ancient Convent of the Nativity. That is the ride.
Ancient Convent of the Nativity → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 23 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 John th is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.