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 Andrés Calpan it runs 300 km to San Andrés Calpan; allow about 4 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat, Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio and back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Calpan is a small town on the lower slopes of Popocatépetl, and in its centre stands a sixteenth-century Franciscan convent that is one of the masterpieces of early colonial art in Mexico. Built soon after the Spanish conquest, when friars were racing to convert the Indigenous population, the church is set within a huge walled atrium where crowds could gather for open-air Mass. In each corner of the atrium stands a posa, a small chapel used for processions, and the four posas at Calpan are covered in astonishing carved reliefs: the Last Judgment, the Annunciation, saints and symbols, carved by Indigenous craftsmen who mixed European designs with their own style.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew is where the day begins. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat.
Zacualpan de Amilpas is a small town on the lower slopes of Popocatépetl in the state of Morelos, and its centre is dominated by a sixteenth-century convent built by Augustinian friars in the first decades after the Spanish conquest. The church and former convent of the Immaculate Conception belong to the group of early monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994, a chain of fortified religious houses that served as the base for the evangelisation of central Mexico.
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Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio.
The Franciscans arrived in Cuernavaca in the 1520s, just a few years after the Spanish conquest, and the fortress like convent they built here, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, is now the city's cathedral. Its massive church, with walls thick enough for defence and an open chapel for preaching to crowds of indigenous converts, is one of the earliest sixteenth century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl listed as a World Heritage Site in 1994. Inside, murals uncovered in the twentieth century show the martyrdom of Christian missionaries in Japan in 1597, a striking reminder of how far the Franciscan world reached; one of the martyrs, Felipe de Jesús, was born in Mexico City.
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about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat write-up.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew. That is the ride.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew → Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio → back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.