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 310 km round trip from Córdoba - roughly 6 h 03 in the saddle. It goes by way of Estancia of Alta Gracia, Estancia of La Candelaría and back through Estancia of Alta Gracia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba is where the day begins. Next is Estancia of Alta Gracia.
Alta Gracia sits where the Córdoba plains begin to buckle into the Sierras Chicas, and its Jesuit estancia is the reason the town exists. The Jesuits established the estate in the seventeenth century, and by the eighteenth it was a thriving enterprise: a church, a residence around a cloister, workshops, and an ingenious dam with a reservoir feeding irrigation canals. It was part of the great network of Jesuit properties around Córdoba, collectively a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, which funded the university and college in the city.
Read the complete Estancia of Alta Gracia write-up.
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Estancia of Alta Gracia comes up about 37 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 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Estancia of La Candelaría. Next is back through Estancia of Alta Gracia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Estancia of Alta Gracia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Estancia of Alta Gracia, 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 Alta Gracia is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Estancia of Alta Gracia → Estancia of La Candelaría is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Estancia of La Candelaría → back through Estancia of Alta Gracia is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Estancia of Alta Gracia → Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.