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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438 km from Córdoba to Córdoba, about 7 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Estancia of Caroya, Estancia of La Candelaría and back through Estancia of Caroya. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Estancia of Caroya.
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 comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Estancia of La Candelaría.
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.
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about 214 km into the recorded legs you reach Estancia of La Candelaría. Next is back through 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.
back through Estancia of Caroya, late in the day. Next is Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba. That is the ride.
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba → Estancia of Caroya is 55 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of Caroya → Estancia of La Candelaría is 159 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of La Candelaría → back through Estancia of Caroya is 169 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Estancia of Caroya → Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba is 55 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.