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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370 km from Atlatlahucan to Atlatlahucan, about 6 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Xochimilco 3, Central University City Campus of the Univ, Former college of San Francisco Javier in and Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Popocatépetl is one of the highest volcanoes in North America, at about 5,400 metres, and it still smokes. From Mexico City on a clear winter day you can see the plume, and on the south side, in the state of Morelos, the foothills are dotted with the monasteries that the first Spanish friars built in the sixteenth century. They arrived in waves, Franciscans in 1524, Dominicans in 1526 and Augustinians in 1533, and in a few decades they converted and taught the people of the valleys, building fortress-like convents with open-air chapels, huge atria for crowds, and cloisters decorated with painted scenes. Eleven of them became a World Heritage group in 1994.
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Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S is where the day begins. Next is Xochimilco 3.
San Andrés Mixquic sits on the southeastern edge of Mexico City, in the borough of Tláhuac, and it feels like a village despite being part of one of the largest cities on earth. It is famous throughout Mexico for its Day of the Dead celebrations, when the cemetery around the church of San Andrés fills with marigolds, candles and families who keep vigil through the night of 2 November, and the whole town turns into a festival of altars, music and food. The rest of the year, Mixquic is a quiet place of canals, chinampas and vegetable fields.
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Xochimilco 3 comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Central University City Campus of the Univ.
The main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as Ciudad Universitaria, is one of the great architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Built between 1949 and 1952 on a field of lava from the ancient eruption of the Xitle volcano, in the south of Mexico City, it brought together dozens of architects, engineers and artists to create a modern campus that would blend international modernism with Mexican traditions. Its most famous building is the Central Library, a tall block covered entirely in a mosaic by Juan O'Gorman, depicting the history of Mexico from pre-Hispanic times to the modern era. UNESCO listed the campus in 2007.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Central University City Campus of the Univ. Next is Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
Tepotzotlán is a Pueblo Mágico just off the highway north of Mexico City, and its heart is a building that stops you in your tracks. The old Jesuit college of San Francisco Javier was a training centre for the order in New Spain, a place where novices learned theology and native languages before being sent out across the colony. When the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 the college passed to others, and today it houses the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, one of the best collections of colonial art in the country. It also forms part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the silver road that ran north from the capital towards Santa Fe, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010.
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Former college of San Francisco Javier in, about halfway. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri.
Aculco is a small town in the highlands of the State of Mexico, a place of cobbled streets, white walls with red trim and a church that stands over everything, and it has been a stop on the road north for as long as there has been a road. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old silver highway that connected Mexico City with the mines of Zacatecas and the far north, passed through this area, and a stretch of it near Aculco, with old paving and stonework, survives as part of the World Heritage listing. The Franciscans founded a convent in Aculco in the sixteenth century, and the town retains its colonial look, with arcades around the plaza and a quiet that comes from being a few hours from the capital and a world away.
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Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
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back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in comes up about 227 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Central University City Campus of the Univ.
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about 277 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Central University City Campus of the Univ. Next is back through Xochimilco 3.
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back through Xochimilco 3, late in the day. Next is Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S.
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Read the complete Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S write-up.
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The route ends here after 370 km.
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S → Xochimilco 3 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xochimilco 3 → Central University City Campus of the Univ is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central University City Campus of the Univ → Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former college of San Francisco Javier in → Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri → back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in → back through Central University City Campus of the Univ is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Central University City Campus of the Univ → back through Xochimilco 3 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xochimilco 3 → Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the S is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.