CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 322 km round trip from Tetela del Volcán - roughly 6 h 18 in the saddle. It goes by way of Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat, Temple and Former Convent of Saint William and Xochimilco 3. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Tetela del Volcán lives in the shadow of Popocatépetl. The town sits at about two thousand metres on the southern slope of the volcano in the state of Morelos, and the snow-capped cone, often trailing a plume of steam and ash, looms over everything. In the middle of town stands the sixteenth-century church and former convent of San Juan Bautista, founded by Dominican friars in the decades after the Spanish conquest. Its cloister has some remarkable murals, painted in muted reds and blacks, showing saints and friars of the order. It is one of the fourteen monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that were added to the World Heritage list in 1994 as a group.
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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 Dominic.
Oaxtepec sits at roughly thirteen hundred metres on the warm southern side of the volcanic highlands of Morelos, where the air is noticeably softer than in Mexico City, an hour or two north. The Dominican convent here is one of the sixteenth-century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994, a group built by the first friars after the conquest, with fortress-like walls, a large atrium for open-air preaching and thick buttresses against the earthquakes that have always visited this region.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint William.
Totolapan is a small town on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Chichinautzin, in the state of Morelos, and its Augustinian convent of San Guillermo is one of the fourteen sixteenth-century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl that UNESCO listed in 1994. The friars who came to Mexico after the conquest built these fortress-like complexes to convert the indigenous population, with huge walled atriums where crowds could gather for open-air masses, chapels at the corners for processions, and austere churches with thick walls. Totolapan's convent is relatively modest, but its simplicity and setting give it a special charm.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint William, about halfway. Next is Xochimilco 3.
San Andrés Mixquic sits on the southeastern edge of Mexico City, in the borough of Tláhuac, and it feels like a village despite being part of one of the largest cities on earth. It is famous throughout Mexico for its Day of the Dead celebrations, when the cemetery around the church of San Andrés fills with marigolds, candles and families who keep vigil through the night of 2 November, and the whole town turns into a festival of altars, music and food. The rest of the year, Mixquic is a quiet place of canals, chinampas and vegetable fields.
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Xochimilco 3 sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William comes up about 201 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat.
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about 248 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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The route ends here after 322 km.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → Xochimilco 3 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xochimilco 3 → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.