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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223 km from Tlayacapan to Tlayacapan, about 4 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t, Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio, Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew and back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Tlayacapan lies in the north of Morelos, among dry hills, with Popocatépetl, the smoking volcano, standing in the distance. Its convent of San Juan Bautista is one of a number of fortress-like monasteries built by Augustinian, Franciscan and Dominican friars in the sixteenth century, within a few decades of the Spanish conquest, and they are among the earliest European buildings in the Americas. UNESCO listed the group in 1994. The church has a plain, heavy front and an open-air chapel, where the friars preached to crowds who were not yet used to indoor services.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is where the day begins. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t.
Ocuituco claims the first Augustinian convent built in Mexico, begun in the 1530s on the southern slopes of Popocatépetl, and the church of Santiago Apóstol with its cloister belongs to the same World Heritage group of early convents around the volcano as Cuernavaca's cathedral. Its cloister keeps a rare carved stone fountain, and the convent's thick walls and simple lines show the early, almost defensive style of the first missions.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio.
Tochimilco sits high on the southern slopes of Popocatépetl, the great volcano that towers over central Mexico, and on clear mornings the snow-capped cone seems close enough to touch. Here, in the sixteenth century, Franciscan friars built a monastery dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, one of the early missions established to convert the indigenous population after the Spanish conquest. Its fortress-like church, with thick walls, battlements and a large atrium where crowds once gathered for open-air mass, is part of the UNESCO site of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl, listed in 1994. In the town square, an old aqueduct and fountain built by the friars still bring water from the mountain.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio sits at 129 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t comes up about 190 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th closes the day.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew → back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.