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 La Plata it runs 352 km to La Plata; allow about 7 h 18 of riding. On the way it passes Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de, ESMA Museum and Site of Memory - Former Cl and back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de. It crosses from Argentina into Uruguay - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
La Plata is a city with an unusual origin: it was planned from scratch in the 1880s as the new capital of Buenos Aires province, after the old city of Buenos Aires was made a federal district. Its founder, Dardo Rocha, commissioned a grid of streets with diagonals cut across it, and plazas every six blocks, a design inspired by Washington and Paris. The result is a calm, tree-lined place with a vast neo-Gothic cathedral and a university tradition.
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Maison du docteur Curutchet is where the day begins. Next is Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de.
The ferry from Buenos Aires crosses the muddy, brown Rio de la Plata in about an hour, and when you arrive in Colonia del Sacramento, the city seems to have been kept in a jar. The Portuguese founded it in 1680 as a smuggling base to rival Spanish Buenos Aires on the opposite shore, and for the next century it was fought over by Portugal and Spain, passing from hand to hand. The old quarter on the peninsula is the result, with cobbled streets, low whitewashed houses with tiled roofs, and a mix of Portuguese and Spanish colonial styles. It was listed by UNESCO in 1995.
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Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de comes up about 106 km into the recorded legs. Next is ESMA Museum and Site of Memory - Former Cl.
This is not a place for tourists in the usual sense, and it is better to arrive knowing why. The ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School, is a complex of handsome neoclassical buildings in the Núñez district in the north of Buenos Aires, set in leafy grounds on the Avenida del Libertador. During the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 it was also one of the largest clandestine detention centres in the country. Thousands of people were held and tortured here, and most of them were killed, many thrown alive from aircraft into the Río de la Plata. Only a small number survived, and their testimony helped bring the junta's leaders to court.
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about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach ESMA Museum and Site of Memory - Former Cl. Next is back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de, late in the day. Next is Maison du docteur Curutchet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maison du docteur Curutchet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Maison du docteur Curutchet. That is the ride.
Maison du docteur Curutchet → Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de is 106 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de → ESMA Museum and Site of Memory - Former Cl is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
ESMA Museum and Site of Memory - Former Cl → back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia de → Maison du docteur Curutchet is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.