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 505 km round trip from Alta Gracia - roughly 10 h 36 in the saddle. The stops in between: Estancia of La Candelaría, Estancia of Santa Catalina and back through Estancia of La Candelaría. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Estancia of Alta Gracia is where the day begins. Next is Estancia of La Candelaría.
The Jesuit estancias of Córdoba were farms, mills and chapels that supported the Jesuit college in the city, and La Candelaria is the one that feels most remote. It lies in the dry hills of northern Córdoba province, at the end of a long, quiet approach, with the nearest villages, such as San Carlos, many kilometres away. The ranch house, chapel and workshops stand in a landscape of scrub, rock and grassland, where goats and cattle graze and the silence is complete.
Read the complete Estancia of La Candelaría write-up.
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Estancia of La Candelaría comes up about 121 km into the recorded legs. Next is Estancia of Santa Catalina.
The Jesuits were more than priests. In seventeenth-century Córdoba, in the heart of what is now Argentina, they ran a university, a network of missions and a string of estancias, ranches whose profits paid for their schools. Santa Catalina, founded in 1622 in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas, was the biggest of them, and the buildings you see today are a handsome cluster of church, cloister, workshops and quarters set around a quiet courtyard. The church, with a baroque front of whitewashed stone and a bell tower, was completed in the mid-eighteenth century, shortly before the Spanish crown expelled the order from its colonies in 1767.
Read the complete Estancia of Santa Catalina write-up.
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about 251 km into the recorded legs you reach Estancia of Santa Catalina. Next is back through Estancia of La Candelaría.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estancia of La Candelaría write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Estancia of La Candelaría, 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 → Estancia of La Candelaría is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of La Candelaría → Estancia of Santa Catalina is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of Santa Catalina → back through Estancia of La Candelaría is 134 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Estancia of La Candelaría → Estancia of Alta Gracia is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.