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 San Martín de las Pirámides it runs 281 km to San Martín de las Pirámides; allow about 4 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Luis Barragán House and Studio, Ancient Convent of the Nativity and back through Luis Barragán House and Studio. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
When the Aztecs came across Teotihuacan, centuries after it had been abandoned, they thought it must have been built by gods and named it the place where the gods were made. The city had reached its peak between about the first and sixth centuries, with perhaps well over a hundred thousand people, a grid of streets, apartment compounds and some of the largest pyramids in the Americas. The Pyramid of the Sun is a huge stepped mass, and the Pyramid of the Moon sits at the far end of the Avenue of the Dead, a long, broad processional road that makes the city feel grand even now.
Read the complete Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan write-up.
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Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is where the day begins. Next is Luis Barragán House and Studio.
From the street, Luis Barragán's house looks like nothing. A plain facade in Tacubaya, a mixed and busy neighbourhood of Mexico City, with a wooden door and a few windows, gives no hint of the colour behind it. Barragán, the Mexican architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 1980, built the house in 1948 as his own home and studio, and he lived and worked here until his death in 1988. The UNESCO listing of 2004 recognised it as one of the key works of modern architecture, in which light, colour, silence and simple geometry do all the talking.
Read the complete Luis Barragán House and Studio write-up.
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Luis Barragán House and Studio comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ancient Convent of the Nativity.
Tepoztlán sits at the foot of a wall of jagged volcanic cliffs in northern Morelos, and on the highest ridge above town, a small Aztec pyramid, the Tepozteco, dedicated to the god of pulque, clings to the rock. Down in the town, the Dominican convent of the Nativity, built in the mid-sixteenth century, is one of the monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl listed by UNESCO in 1994. Its massive church, with a facade carved with angels, the sun and the moon, and a large atrium, is impressive, and the cloister has remains of colourful mural paintings. Part of the convent houses a museum.
Read the complete Ancient Convent of the Nativity write-up.
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about 141 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient Convent of the Nativity. Next is back through Luis Barragán House and Studio.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Luis Barragán House and Studio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Luis Barragán House and Studio, late in the day. Next is Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan. That is the ride.
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan → Luis Barragán House and Studio is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luis Barragán House and Studio → Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ancient Convent of the Nativity → back through Luis Barragán House and Studio is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luis Barragán House and Studio → Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.