CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Guadalupe it runs 270 km to Guadalupe; allow about 4 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Cupuri Mutiu, Sanctuary of Plateros and back through Cupuri Mutiu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Zacatecas was built on silver, and the town next to it, Guadalupe, was built on faith. In the middle of the eighteenth century a Franciscan college was founded here to train missionaries who would go north into the unconquered country, and its big church, cloisters and long galleries still stand on the edge of the city, now serving as a museum of colonial art with paintings, carved altarpieces and religious objects. The college once sent friars as far as Texas and California.
Read the complete Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal write-up.
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Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal is where the day begins. Next is Cupuri Mutiu.
Jerez de García Salinas is the reason most riders end up here, and it is a happy accident if they do. This colonial town in the west of Zacatecas state, a couple of kilometres from the point, is a Pueblo Mágico with a leafy plaza, an ornate little theatre, the Teatro Hinojosa, said to be modelled on Ford's Theatre in Washington, and the childhood home of Ramón López Velarde, the poet whose verses about provincial Mexico every schoolchild there knows. Jerez is a ranchero town at heart, with saddle makers, boot shops and men in hats, and the Easter fair with its horses and music draws people from across the region.
Read the complete Cupuri Mutiu write-up.
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Cupuri Mutiu comes up 77 km in. Next is Sanctuary of Plateros.
Plateros is a small town on the edge of the high desert plateau in Zacatecas, a few kilometres from the silver city of Fresnillo, and it exists, more or less, because of one small figure on an altar. The Santo Nino de Atocha, a child dressed as a pilgrim and carrying a basket and a staff, is revered here as a protector of travellers, prisoners and the sick. The devotion came from Spain, where the original image belongs to the shrine of Atocha in Madrid, and it was carried across the Atlantic by the Spanish miners who came for Zacatecas silver. The sanctuary at Plateros became one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Mexico.
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153 km in you reach Sanctuary of Plateros. Next is back through Cupuri Mutiu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cupuri Mutiu write-up.
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back through Cupuri Mutiu, late in the day. Next is Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal. That is the ride.
Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal → Cupuri Mutiu is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cupuri Mutiu → Sanctuary of Plateros is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sanctuary of Plateros → back through Cupuri Mutiu is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cupuri Mutiu → Former college of Nuestra Señora de Guadal is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.