CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Paraty it runs 459 km to Paraty; allow about 8 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Ilha Grande State Park, Sítio Roberto Burle Marx and back through Ilha Grande State Park. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Paraty is a small, white and ochre colonial town on the green coast of Rio de Janeiro state, between the sea and the steep forested wall of the Serra da Bocaina, and it looks almost as it did in the eighteenth century. It grew rich as the port at the end of the gold route: from the 1690s, gold from the mines of Minas Gerais was carried down the mountains by mule on the Caminho do Ouro and shipped from here to Rio and Portugal. When the gold trade moved elsewhere, the town slumbered, and that long sleep is the reason that its streets, churches and houses survived so intact. UNESCO listed Paraty and Ilha Grande in 2019, for the cultural landscape and its biodiversity.
Read the complete Paraty Historic Center write-up.
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Paraty Historic Center is where the day begins. Next is Ilha Grande State Park.
Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, between Rio and Paraty, Ilha Grande rises from the sea, a mountainous island covered in Atlantic rainforest, with dozens of beaches, coves and waterfalls. For much of the twentieth century, it was home to a notorious prison and a leper colony, which kept development at bay, and today, most of the island is protected as a state park. It is part of the UNESCO site Paraty and Ilha Grande, Culture and Biodiversity, listed in 2019.
Read the complete Ilha Grande State Park write-up.
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Ilha Grande State Park comes up 82 km in. Next is Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
Roberto Burle Marx changed the way the world thought about gardens. The Brazilian landscape architect, painter and plant collector, who died in 1994, designed the wave-patterned promenade along Copacabana beach, the gardens of the Ministry of Education in Rio, and hundreds of other parks and gardens, using native tropical plants in bold, abstract compositions. In 1949 he bought a former coffee estate in Barra de Guaratiba, in the far west of Rio de Janeiro, and turned it into his home, studio and laboratory, filling it with thousands of plant species collected on expeditions across Brazil. Sítio Roberto Burle Marx was added to the World Heritage list in 2021.
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164 km in you reach Sítio Roberto Burle Marx. Next is back through Ilha Grande State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ilha Grande State Park write-up.
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back through Ilha Grande State Park, late in the day. Next is Paraty Historic Center.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paraty Historic Center write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Paraty Historic Center. That is the ride.
Paraty Historic Center → Ilha Grande State Park is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ilha Grande State Park → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → back through Ilha Grande State Park is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ilha Grande State Park → Paraty Historic Center is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.