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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From Hohenau it runs 141 km to Hohenau; allow about 2 h 50 of riding. 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 Jesuit mission of Santisima Trinidad de Parana lies on a low hill in southern Paraguay, in the department of Itapua, and the stone ruins that remain are some of the most atmospheric in South America. It was founded in 1706 as one of the reducciones, the mission towns in which Jesuit priests gathered the Guarani people into settled communities, and it grew into one of the largest. At its height, several thousand people lived here around a vast central plaza, with a great church, a cemetery, a school, workshops, a college and rows of houses. The red sandstone church, begun in the 1740s, was decorated with carved figures, including angels playing musical instruments, and parts of its facade and pulpit remain.
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Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d 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.
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San Ignacio Miní comes up about 51 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.
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about 71 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.
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back through San Ignacio Mini, late in the day. Next is Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d. That is the ride.
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d → San Ignacio Mini is 51 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 Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.