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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99 km from Agua Zarca to Agua Zarca, about 2 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Santa María del Agua de Landa, Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of and back through Santa María del Agua de Landa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
This part of the ride is 27 km of San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco → Santa María del Agua de Landa.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, a group of Franciscan friars led by Junipero Serra, later famous for his missions in California, set about building five churches in the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro, one of the roughest, most remote parts of central Mexico. The mission of San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is one of the five, along with Jalpan, Landa, Concá and Tancoyol, and together they were inscribed as World Heritage in 2003 as the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda. The church at Tilaco stands in a small village, and its facade is covered with stucco decoration in a style that mixes European baroque with local imagery, with saints, flowers, and symbols that might have been designed by the indigenous workers who built it.
Read the complete San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco write-up.
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San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is where the day begins. Next is Santa María del Agua de Landa.
High in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro, Franciscan missionaries led by Junípero Serra in the mid eighteenth century built five mission churches, and their facades are an explosion of carved and painted plaster: angels, saints, flowers, fruit, mermaids and symbols that blend Catholic imagery with the local indigenous world. The mission of Santa María del Agua de Landa, in the village of Landa de Matamoros, has one of the most elaborate facades, glowing in pink and ochre. The five missions were listed together as a World Heritage Site in 2003. Serra went on to found the missions of California.
Read the complete Santa María del Agua de Landa write-up.
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Santa María del Agua de Landa comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of.
In the 1740s and 1750s, Franciscan friars led by Junipero Serra, the same man who would later found missions in California, arrived in the Sierra Gorda, a rugged range in the state of Queretaro, to bring the Pame and other indigenous peoples into mission communities. The five missions they built, at Jalpan, Landa, Tilaco, Tancoyol and Conca, are among the most extraordinary churches in Mexico. Their facades are covered in vivid, almost wild, baroque decoration, with saints, angels, flowers, and symbols that seem to reflect local indigenous hands as much as European ones. UNESCO listed them in 2003.
Read the complete Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of write-up.
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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of. Next is back through Santa María del Agua de Landa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santa María del Agua de Landa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Santa María del Agua de Landa, late in the day. Next is San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco. That is the ride.
San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco → Santa María del Agua de Landa is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Santa María del Agua de Landa → Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of → back through Santa María del Agua de Landa is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Santa María del Agua de Landa → San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.