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 Ignacio it runs 210 km to San Ignacio; allow about 3 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana, Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de and back through Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana. It crosses from Argentina into Paraguay - carry ID and check the toll rules.
Red sandstone, carved with angels, vines and saints, rises out of the green jungle of northeastern Argentina at San Ignacio Miní, the best preserved of the Jesuit missions in the province of Misiones. Founded in the early seventeenth century and moved to its present site in the 1690s, the mission was a town for several thousand Guaraní people, organised by Jesuit priests, with a great church, workshops, houses, a school and a plaza. The church's facade, in a style often called Guaraní Baroque, combines European forms with local motifs carved by Guaraní craftsmen. The mission, with others in Argentina and Brazil, became a World Heritage Site in 1983 and 1984.
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San Ignacio Miní is where the day begins. Next is Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana.
Deep in the red earth of Misiones, in the north-eastern tip of Argentina, the forest is slowly reclaiming a mission town. Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana was one of the Jesuit reductions, settlements where Jesuit priests gathered the Guaraní people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, partly to protect them from slave raiders and partly to convert them. The towns were laid out around a central plaza with a church, a school, workshops and houses, and the Guaraní built, carved and played music in a form that mixed European baroque with their own skills. Santa Ana, founded in the 1630s, is among the lesser known, and much of it lies in ruin under trees and vines.
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Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de.
In the south-east of Paraguay, near the Parana river and the Argentine border, a field of red earth, tall trees and golden sandstone walls marks the site of La Santisima Trinidad de Parana, one of the largest of the Jesuit missions built among the Guarani people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ruins are about nine kilometres from Hohenau, a small town of just over five thousand people, and not far from Trinidad village and Jesus, where another mission stands.
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about 105 km into the recorded legs you reach Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de. Next is back through Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana write-up.
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back through Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana, late in the day. Next is San Ignacio Mini.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete San Ignacio Mini write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at San Ignacio Mini. That is the ride.
San Ignacio Miní → Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana → Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de → back through Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana → San Ignacio Mini is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.