CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Alta Gracia it runs 189 km to Alta Gracia; allow about 2 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba, Estancia of Caroya and back through Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Alta Gracia sits where the Córdoba plains begin to buckle into the Sierras Chicas, and its Jesuit estancia is the reason the town exists. The Jesuits established the estate in the seventeenth century, and by the eighteenth it was a thriving enterprise: a church, a residence around a cloister, workshops, and an ingenious dam with a reservoir feeding irrigation canals. It was part of the great network of Jesuit properties around Córdoba, collectively a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, which funded the university and college in the city.
Read the complete Estancia of Alta Gracia write-up.
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Estancia of Alta Gracia is where the day begins. Next is Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba.
Córdoba is Argentina's second city, a university town of about a million and a half people that has a faintly rebellious reputation. At its centre is the Manzana Jesuítica, the Jesuit Block, a group of buildings from the seventeenth century that includes the church of the Compañía, the old Jesuit college and the university, one of the oldest in the Americas, founded in 1613. The church has a remarkable wooden ceiling shaped like an upturned ship's hull, built by a Flemish Jesuit craftsman, with joinery that shows no nails.
Read the complete Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba write-up.
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Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba comes up 57 km in. Next is Estancia of Caroya.
The Jesuits ran their farms like small empires. In the seventeenth century the Society of Jesus built a chain of estancias around the city of Cordoba, in the centre of Argentina, which supported the university and the college in town with grain, cattle, wine and mules, and these, together with the Jesuit Block in Cordoba itself, were inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2000. The Estancia of Caroya, founded in 1616, was the first of them, and its low, thick-walled buildings, with their long arcaded gallery, courtyard and a chapel, look out over a plain bordered by the hills of the Sierras Chicas.
Read the complete Estancia of Caroya write-up.
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113 km in you reach Estancia of Caroya. Next is back through Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba, late in the day. Next is Estancia of Alta Gracia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estancia of Alta Gracia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Estancia of Alta Gracia. That is the ride.
Estancia of Alta Gracia → Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba → Estancia of Caroya is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of Caroya → back through Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba → Estancia of Alta Gracia is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.