CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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324 km from Loreto to Loreto, about 6 h 48 of riding. On the way it passes Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de, San Ignacio Mini, Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d and back through San Ignacio Mini. It crosses from Argentina into Paraguay - carry ID and check the toll rules.
The ruins of Loreto lie in a clearing in the forest of Misiones, in the north-east tip of Argentina, and the forest is slowly winning. Strangler figs and giant roots creep over the red sandstone walls of what was once a church, and the grass grows over the plaza where thousands of Guarani people once lived. Loreto was one of the Jesuit missions, the reducciones, that the Society of Jesus founded in the early seventeenth century in the lands of the Guarani, in what is now Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. This one was moved to its present site in 1632 after raids by slave hunters from Brazil.
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Nuestra Señora de Loreto is where the day begins. Next is Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de.
In the south-east of Paraguay, near the Parana river and the Argentine border, a field of red earth, tall trees and golden sandstone walls marks the site of La Santisima Trinidad de Parana, one of the largest of the Jesuit missions built among the Guarani people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ruins are about nine kilometres from Hohenau, a small town of just over five thousand people, and not far from Trinidad village and Jesus, where another mission stands.
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Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de comes up 33 km in. 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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65 km in you reach San Ignacio Mini. Next is Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d.
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, about halfway. Next is back through San Ignacio Mini.
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back through San Ignacio Mini sits at 130 km, about halfway. Next is back through Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de.
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back through Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de comes up 163 km in. Next is Nuestra Señora de Loreto.
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Nuestra Señora de Loreto closes the day.
Nuestra Señora de Loreto → Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de → San Ignacio Mini is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Ignacio Miní → Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad d → back through San Ignacio Mini is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through San Ignacio Mini → back through Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de → Nuestra Señora de Loreto is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.