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 Miguel de Allende it runs 227 km to San Miguel de Allende; allow about 3 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, Historic centre of the city of San Juan de and back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
San Miguel de Allende sits at about 1,900 metres in the highlands of Guanajuato, and its centre looks like a film set because it has hardly changed in two centuries. Cobbled streets climb between rose-pink and ochre walls, doors open onto courtyards full of bougainvillea, and over everything rise the pink Gothic spires of the Parroquia, the parish church, which was given its fairy-tale appearance in the late nineteenth century by a self-taught local builder, Zeferino Gutiérrez, who is said to have based the design on postcards of European cathedrals.
Read the complete Protective town of San Miguel write-up.
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Protective town of San Miguel is where the day begins. Next is Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
On the high, dry plain northeast of Querétaro, the village of Chichimequillas grew up around an old hacienda, one of the many great estates that lined the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Inland Road that connected Mexico City with Santa Fe, in what is now New Mexico, for nearly three centuries. Silver, mercury, cloth, livestock, missionaries and soldiers travelled this route, and haciendas like this one supplied food, water and rest. The route was listed by UNESCO in 2010 as a series of sites, and the hacienda is one of them; its old buildings, chapel and walls hint at the wealth and power once concentrated here.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
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Former hacienda of Chichimequillas comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic centre of the city of San Juan de.
San Juan del Río grew up as a stop on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran north from Mexico City to the silver mines of Zacatecas and on to Santa Fe in New Mexico, and its historic centre is one of the sites along that route listed by UNESCO in 2010. For centuries, mule trains, wagons and travellers passed through here, stopping at inns and crossing the river on the stone bridge built in the early eighteenth century, which still stands. The centre has plazas, churches, convents and colonial houses of pink and grey stone, and a relaxed provincial atmosphere, despite the city's growth as an industrial centre.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of San Juan de write-up.
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about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic centre of the city of San Juan de. Next is back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Former hacienda of Chichimequillas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas, late in the day. Next is Protective town of San Miguel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Protective town of San Miguel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Protective town of San Miguel. That is the ride.
Protective town of San Miguel → Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Historic centre of the city of San Juan de is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic centre of the city of San Juan de → back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Former hacienda of Chichimequillas → Protective town of San Miguel is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.