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 370 km round trip from Atlatlahucan - roughly 6 h 22 in the saddle. On the way it passes Xochimilco 3, Central University City Campus of the Univ, Former college of San Francisco Javier in and Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the green valleys south of Mexico City, on the slopes below Popocatépetl, sixteenth-century friars built a chain of fortress-like monasteries, and the church and former convent of San Mateo at Atlatlahucan is one of them. The Augustinians arrived in the 1530s, after the Spanish conquest, and set about converting the local Nahua population, building enormous, thick-walled churches with open-air chapels where crowds could attend mass in the courtyard. The group of fourteen early monasteries on the slopes of the volcano was listed by UNESCO in 1994, and the architecture is a rare sight: plain, defensive on the outside, but inside the cloister are murals painted in black and white by indigenous artists under the friars' direction.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Central University City Campus of the Univ.
The main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as Ciudad Universitaria, is one of the great architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Built between 1949 and 1952 on a field of lava from the ancient eruption of the Xitle volcano, in the south of Mexico City, it brought together dozens of architects, engineers and artists to create a modern campus that would blend international modernism with Mexican traditions. Its most famous building is the Central Library, a tall block covered entirely in a mosaic by Juan O'Gorman, depicting the history of Mexico from pre-Hispanic times to the modern era. UNESCO listed the campus in 2007.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Central University City Campus of the Univ. 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, about halfway. Next is Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri.
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 sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
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back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in comes up about 227 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Central University City Campus of the Univ.
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about 277 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Central University City Campus of the Univ. Next is back through Xochimilco 3.
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back through Xochimilco 3, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew.
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The route ends here after 370 km.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew → Xochimilco 3 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xochimilco 3 → Central University City Campus of the Univ is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Central University City Campus of the Univ → Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.
Stretch of the Camino Real between the bri → back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Former college of San Francisco Javier in → back through Central University City Campus of the Univ is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Central University City Campus of the Univ → back through Xochimilco 3 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xochimilco 3 → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.