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 247 km round trip from Santa Teresita de Don Diego - roughly 4 h 08 in the saddle. On the way it passes Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, Historic centre of the city of San Juan de and back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Atotonilco is a small village in the hills outside San Miguel de Allende, and its sanctuary is sometimes called the Sistine Chapel of Mexico. The church was founded in the eighteenth century and covered, inside, with extraordinary baroque paintings by a local artist, who filled the walls and ceilings with scenes of the Passion, saints and symbols in a dense, theatrical style. It is still an active place of pilgrimage, and many people walk here from San Miguel, especially during Lent, in a tradition that goes back centuries.
Read the complete Bridge of El Fraile write-up.
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Bridge of El Fraile is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
On the high, dry plain northeast of Querétaro, the village of Chichimequillas grew up around an old hacienda, one of the many great estates that lined the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road that connected Mexico City with Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, for nearly three centuries. Silver, mercury, cloth, livestock, missionaries and soldiers travelled this route, and haciendas like this one supplied food, water and rest. The route was listed by UNESCO in 2010 as a series of sites, and the hacienda is one of them; its old buildings, chapel and walls hint at the wealth and power once concentrated here.
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Former hacienda of Chichimequillas comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic centre of the city of San Juan de.
San Juan del Río grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran north from Mexico City to the silver mines of Zacatecas and on to Santa Fe in New Mexico, and its historic centre is one of the sites along that route listed by UNESCO in 2010. For centuries, mule trains, wagons and travellers passed through here, stopping at inns and crossing the river on the stone bridge built in the early eighteenth century, which still stands. The centre has plazas, churches, convents and colonial houses of pink and grey stone, and a relaxed provincial atmosphere, despite the city's growth as an industrial centre.
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about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic centre of the city of San Juan de. Next is back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, late in the day. Next is Bridge of El Fraile.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bridge of El Fraile write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bridge of El Fraile. That is the ride.
Bridge of El Fraile → Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Historic centre of the city of San Juan de is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic centre of the city of San Juan de → back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Bridge of El Fraile is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.