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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A 182 km round trip from Agua Zarca - roughly 4 h 07 in the saddle. The stops in between: Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of, San Miguel Concá and back through Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 49 km of San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco → Franciscan Missions in the Sierra .
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 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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Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is San Miguel Concá.
The five Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda are a very odd thing to find in the Mexican mountains: grand baroque churches, painted in pinks and yellows and covered in stone carvings, set in villages that are otherwise made of low houses and cornfields. San Miguel Conca is one of them. Father Junipero Serra, who would later found the missions of California, led the work here in the 1750s with the help of the local Pame people, and the facade of the church shows the mix of cultures that built it, with saints and angels carved beside local plants, mermaids and faces that look more indigenous than European. All five missions were listed as a World Heritage site in 2003.
Read the complete San Miguel Concá write-up.
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about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach San Miguel Concá. Next is back through Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of, 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 → Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of → San Miguel Concá is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
San Miguel Concá → back through Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of → San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.