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 349 km round trip from La Cieneguita - roughly 5 h 39 in the saddle. On the way it passes Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M, Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo and back through Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The map gives this stop a name, the Bridge of San Rafael, and a spot on the edge of the valley of the Río Laja, west of San Miguel de Allende, close to the small settlement of La Cieneguita. What I can say is how a bridge like this fits the country. San Miguel stands on the slopes above the Laja, a river that wanders across the highland plateau of the Bajío, and for centuries the traffic of mule trains, wagons and pilgrims had to cross it somewhere. A stone bridge on a colonial road is a small, sturdy thing, of arches and cutwaters, and it is often older than anything else for miles.
Read the complete Bridge of San Rafael write-up.
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Bridge of San Rafael is where the day begins. 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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Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo.
Lagos de Moreno is a colonial town in the highlands of Jalisco, the Altos, on the old Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior Land that linked Mexico City to Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico. For three centuries, silver, mercury, goods and people travelled along it, and towns grew up at its stopping points. Lagos de Moreno was one of the most important, and its historic centre is part of the UNESCO listing of the Camino Real, inscribed in 2010. The town has handsome churches, including a baroque parish church with an elaborately carved façade of pink stone, mansions with wrought-iron balconies, a theatre and a hospital from the colonial era.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo. Next is back through Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M, late in the day. Next is Bridge of San Rafael.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bridge of San Rafael write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bridge of San Rafael. That is the ride.
Bridge of San Rafael → Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M → Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic centre of the city of Lagos de Mo → back through Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent M → Bridge of San Rafael is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.