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 138 km round trip from Landa de Matamoros - roughly 3 h 21 in the saddle. The stops in between: San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco, Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol and back through San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The ride follows Santa María del Agua de Landa → San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco for 27 km.
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 is where the day begins. Next is San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco.
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 comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol.
Tancoyol is one of the last of the Sierra Gorda missions to be built, and it is perhaps the one that feels most remote. The church of Nuestra Señora de la Luz stands in a small village in the valley of the Santa María river, in the north of Querétaro, with a tall, intricate facade covered with plaster figures, flowers and symbols, a combination of European baroque and the imagination of the Pame people who helped to build it. UNESCO listed the five Sierra Gorda missions together in 2003, and Tancoyol is the quietest of them.
Read the complete Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol. Next is back through 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 through San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco, late in the day. Next is 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 at Santa María del Agua de Landa. That is the ride.
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.
San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco → Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol → back through San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.