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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271 km from Jesús María to Jesús María, about 4 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Jesuit Block, Estancia of Alta Gracia, Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba and back through Estancia of Alta Gracia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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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Estancia of Caroya is where the day begins. Next is Jesuit Block.
The oldest university in Argentina is a block in the middle of Córdoba. When the Jesuits arrived in 1599 they began what became the Manzana Jesuítica, a whole city block with a church, a college and a university, and in 1613 they founded the Colegio Máximo, which developed into the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, one of the oldest in the Americas. The Iglesia de la Compañía, begun in the 1640s and finished some decades later, has a wonderful wooden ceiling shaped like an upturned ship's hull, built by craftsmen who knew about boats, with beams of local timber joined without nails. The block, together with the Jesuit estancias in the countryside, was listed by UNESCO in 2000.
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Jesuit Block comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Estancia of Alta Gracia.
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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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Estancia of Alta Gracia. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Estancia of Alta Gracia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estancia of Alta Gracia write-up.
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back through Estancia of Alta Gracia sits at 214 km, about halfway. Next is back through Jesuit Block.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Block write-up.
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back through Jesuit Block comes up about 216 km into the recorded legs. Next is Estancia of Caroya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estancia of Caroya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Estancia of Caroya closes the day.
Estancia of Caroya → Jesuit Block is 54 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jesuit Block → Estancia of Alta Gracia is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Estancia of Alta Gracia → Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba → back through Estancia of Alta Gracia is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Estancia of Alta Gracia → back through Jesuit Block is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jesuit Block → Estancia of Caroya is 56 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.