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 Santa María Magdalena it runs 170 km to Santa María Magdalena; allow about 2 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Former college of San Francisco Javier in, Historic Centre of Mexico City and back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Aculco is a small town in the highlands of the State of Mexico, a place of cobbled streets, white walls with red trim and a church that stands over everything, and it has been a stop on the road north for as long as there has been a road. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the old silver highway that connected Mexico City with the mines of Zacatecas and the far north, passed through this area, and a stretch of it near Aculco, with old paving and stonework, survives as part of the World Heritage listing. The Franciscans founded a convent in Aculco in the sixteenth century, and the town retains its colonial look, with arcades around the plaza and a quiet that comes from being a few hours from the capital and a world away.
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Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri is where the day begins. Next is Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
Tepotzotlán is a Pueblo Mágico just off the highway north of Mexico City, and its heart is a building that stops you in your tracks. The old Jesuit college of San Francisco Javier was a training centre for the order in New Spain, a place where novices learned theology and native languages before being sent out across the colony. When the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 the college passed to others, and today it houses the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, one of the best collections of colonial art in the country. It also forms part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the silver road that ran north from the capital towards Santa Fe, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010.
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Former college of San Francisco Javier in comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of Mexico City.
The Zócalo, the vast main square of Mexico City, is one of the largest public squares in the world, and standing in it you are at the centre of over seven hundred years of history. This was the heart of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, built on an island in Lake Texcoco and home to perhaps two hundred thousand people when the Spanish arrived in 1519. After the conquest, Hernán Cortés's men built their new city directly on top of the ruins, using the stones of the temples to construct churches and palaces. The historic centre, together with the canals of Xochimilco to the south, was listed by UNESCO in 1987.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Centre of Mexico City. Next is back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
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Read the complete Former college of San Francisco Javier in write-up.
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back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in, late in the day. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri. That is the ride.
Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri → Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Former college of San Francisco Javier in → Historic Centre of Mexico City is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Mexico City → back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in → Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.