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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289 km from Rancho de Guadalupe to Rancho de Guadalupe, about 4 h 38 of riding. On the way it passes Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco, Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M and back through Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The silver of Guanajuato came with a price, and the price was a war. In the middle of the sixteenth century, as the Spanish pushed north and the roads began to carry wagons of ore, the Chichimeca peoples of this high plateau resisted, and for several decades attacks on convoys made the journey dangerous. The Spanish answered with forts, called presidios, along the road, and with settlements of Indian allies, and the old road, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, grew up as a fortified corridor.
Read the complete Bridge La Quemada write-up.
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Bridge La Quemada is where the day begins. Next is Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco.
From the outside, the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco is plain: thick whitewashed walls, a modest bell tower, a dusty plaza in a small village on the dry plateau of Guanajuato. Step inside and every surface erupts in colour. The church was founded in the eighteenth century by the priest Luis Felipe Neri de Alfaro as a place of penitence and spiritual retreat, and its walls and ceilings were covered over decades with murals by the painter Miguel Antonio Martínez de Pocasangre, full of saints, angels, Biblical scenes and verses. People call it the Sistine Chapel of Mexico, and the comparison is less exaggerated than it sounds. It is listed by UNESCO together with the nearby town of San Miguel de Allende.
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Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M.
Guanajuato is a town that has been dug into, built over and tunnelled through, and it has a character all of its own. It sits in a narrow canyon in the highlands of central Mexico, and the silver mines that made it rich lie in the hills around it. In the eighteenth century the Valenciana mine was among the richest in the world, and the profits built grand churches, theatres and mansions, all painted in bright colours and packed into steep, winding streets. UNESCO listed the town and its mines in 1988.
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about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M. Next is back through Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco, late in the day. Next is Bridge La Quemada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bridge La Quemada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bridge La Quemada. That is the ride.
Bridge La Quemada → Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco → Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M → back through Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco → Bridge La Quemada is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.