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 438 km round trip from Córdoba - roughly 7 h 29 in the saddle. The stops in between: 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. The line favours views over speed.
The oldest university in Argentina is a block in the middle of Córdoba. When the Jesuits arrived in 1599 they began what became the Manzana Jesuítica, a whole city block with a church, a college and a university, and in 1613 they founded the Colegio Máximo, which developed into the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, one of the oldest in the Americas. The Iglesia de la Compañía, begun in the 1640s and finished some decades later, has a wonderful wooden ceiling shaped like an upturned ship's hull, built by craftsmen who knew about boats, with beams of local timber joined without nails. The block, together with the Jesuit estancias in the countryside, was listed by UNESCO in 2000.
Read the complete Jesuit Block write-up.
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Jesuit Block 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 56 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 215 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.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Block write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Jesuit Block. That is the ride.
Jesuit Block → Estancia of Caroya is 56 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 is 54 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.