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 236 km round trip from San Miguel de Allende - roughly 3 h 55 in the saddle. The stops in between: Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist, Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro, Historic centre of the city of San Juan de and back through Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Order of San Juan de Dios was founded in the sixteenth century by a Portuguese-born soldier turned nurse, Juan Ciudad, who opened a hospital in Granada, and it spread across Spain's empire. In the colonial towns of New Spain, its brothers ran hospitals for the poor, the sick and the travelling, and a royal hospital in San Miguel belonged to this tradition. In a silver town on the great trade road the need was real: muleteers, miners and soldiers fell ill, and the church and crown shared the cost of caring for them.
Read the complete Former Royal hospital of San Juan de Dios write-up.
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Former Royal hospital of San Juan de Dios is where the day begins. Next is Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist.
North of the city of Querétaro, the land rises into dry hills dotted with cactus, mesquite and the remains of old haciendas. These estates were the economic engines of colonial Mexico, producing grain, livestock and pulque for the cities and mines of the north. The chapel of the former Hacienda of Buenavista stands in this landscape near the village of the same name, close to Santa Rosa Jáuregui, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
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Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro.
Santiago de Querétaro's skyline is defined by its aqueduct, seventy-four tall stone arches striding across a valley into the city, built in the early eighteenth century at the expense of the Marqués de la Villa del Villar del Águila to bring fresh water from the hills. Legend says he did it for love of a nun; the more prosaic version says he wanted to improve public health. Either way, it is one of the great engineering works of colonial Mexico, and the view of the arches at dusk, lit up against the sky, is unforgettable.
Read the complete Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro. Next is Historic centre of the city of San Juan de.
San Juan del Río grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran north from Mexico City to the silver mines of Zacatecas and on to Santa Fe in New Mexico, and its historic centre is one of the sites along that route listed by UNESCO in 2010. For centuries, mule trains, wagons and travellers passed through here, stopping at inns and crossing the river on the stone bridge built in the early eighteenth century, which still stands. The centre has plazas, churches, convents and colonial houses of pink and grey stone, and a relaxed provincial atmosphere, despite the city's growth as an industrial centre.
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Historic centre of the city of San Juan de, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro.
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Read the complete Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro write-up.
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back through Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro sits at 188 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist comes up about 203 km into the recorded legs. Next is Former Royal hospital of San Juan de Dios.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former Royal hospital of San Juan de Dios write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Former Royal hospital of San Juan de Dios closes the day.
Former Royal hospital of San Juan de Dios → Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist → Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro → Historic centre of the city of San Juan de is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic centre of the city of San Juan de → back through Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro → back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chapel of the former hacienda of Buenavist → Former Royal hospital of San Juan de Dios is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.