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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
It goes by way of Estancia of Santa Catalina, Jesuit Block and back through Estancia of Santa Catalina. 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.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Estancia of La Candelaría is where the day begins. 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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Estancia of Santa Catalina comes up about 130 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Jesuit Block write-up.
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about 203 km into the recorded legs you reach Jesuit Block. Next is back through Estancia of Santa Catalina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estancia of Santa Catalina write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Estancia of Santa Catalina, late in the day. Next is 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 at Estancia of La Candelaría. That is the ride.
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 → Jesuit Block is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jesuit Block → back through Estancia of Santa Catalina is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Estancia of Santa Catalina → Estancia of La Candelaría is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.