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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311 km from Córdoba to Córdoba, about 6 h 05 of riding. 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.
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 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 38 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.
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back through Estancia of Alta Gracia, 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 Alta Gracia is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Estancia of Alta Gracia → Estancia of La Candelaría is 110 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 is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.