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 148 km round trip from Jesús - roughly 3 h 14 in the saddle. The stops in between: San Ignacio Mini, Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana and back through San Ignacio Mini. It crosses from Paraguay into Argentina - carry ID and check the toll rules.
The most striking thing about Jesus de Tavarangue is what is missing. The church tower is a rectangular stone shaft rising into the air with nothing attached; the great church it was meant for was never finished. In 1767 the Spanish crown expelled the Jesuits from its territories, and the mission, which was in the middle of its final, grandest phase of construction, was abandoned. What remains is a handsome ruin of red sandstone, with arches, columns and carved details, set in a grassy plaza under the subtropical sky, silent and a little strange.
Read the complete Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangue write-up.
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Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangue is where the day begins. Next is San Ignacio Mini.
Red sandstone, carved with angels, vines and saints, rises out of the green jungle of northeastern Argentina at San Ignacio Miní, the best preserved of the Jesuit missions in the province of Misiones. Founded in the early seventeenth century and moved to its present site in the 1690s, the mission was a town for several thousand Guaraní people, organised by Jesuit priests, with a great church, workshops, houses, a school and a plaza. The church's facade, in a style often called Guaraní Baroque, combines European forms with local motifs carved by Guaraní craftsmen. The mission, with others in Argentina and Brazil, became a World Heritage Site in 1983 and 1984.
Read the complete San Ignacio Mini write-up.
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San Ignacio Miní comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana.
Deep in the red earth of Misiones, in the north-eastern tip of Argentina, the forest is slowly reclaiming a mission town. Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana was one of the Jesuit reductions, settlements where Jesuit priests gathered the Guaraní people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, partly to protect them from slave raiders and partly to convert them. The towns were laid out around a central plaza with a church, a school, workshops and houses, and the Guaraní built, carved and played music in a form that mixed European baroque with their own skills. Santa Ana, founded in the 1630s, is among the lesser known, and much of it lies in ruin under trees and vines.
Read the complete Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana. Next is back through San Ignacio Mini.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Ignacio Mini write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through San Ignacio Mini, late in the day. Next is Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangue.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangue write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangue. That is the ride.
Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangue → San Ignacio Mini is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Ignacio Miní → Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana → back through San Ignacio Mini is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Ignacio Mini → Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangue is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.