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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Totolac it runs 341 km to Totolac; allow about 5 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio, Xochimilco 3 and back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Tlaxcala has an unusual place in Mexican history, because its people were the main allies of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of the Aztec empire. The Tlaxcalans had resisted Aztec expansion for years, and when the Spanish arrived in 1519 they chose to fight with them rather than against them. In return, they received privileges, and the Franciscan friars who arrived soon after chose Tlaxcala as their first base on the mainland. The monastery and its church, begun in the sixteenth century, still stand above the town, a plain, massive building with a fine wooden ceiling in Moorish style.
Read the complete Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C is where the day begins. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio.
Tochimilco sits high on the southern slopes of Popocatépetl, the great volcano that towers over central Mexico, and on clear mornings the snow-capped cone seems close enough to touch. Here, in the sixteenth century, Franciscan friars built a monastery dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, one of the early missions established to convert the indigenous population after the Spanish conquest. Its fortress-like church, with thick walls, battlements and a large atrium where crowds once gathered for open-air mass, is part of the UNESCO site of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl, listed in 1994. In the town square, an old aqueduct and fountain built by the friars still bring water from the mountain.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Xochimilco 3.
San Andrés Mixquic sits on the southeastern edge of Mexico City, in the borough of Tláhuac, and it feels like a village despite being part of one of the largest cities on earth. It is famous throughout Mexico for its Day of the Dead celebrations, when the cemetery around the church of San Andrés fills with marigolds, candles and families who keep vigil through the night of 2 November, and the whole town turns into a festival of altars, music and food. The rest of the year, Mixquic is a quiet place of canals, chinampas and vegetable fields.
Read the complete Xochimilco 3 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 170 km into the recorded legs you reach Xochimilco 3. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio, late in the day. Next is Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C. That is the ride.
Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C → Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → Xochimilco 3 is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Xochimilco 3 → back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.