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 110 km round trip from Atlatlahucan - roughly 2 h 10 in the saddle. The stops in between: Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t, Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio and back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 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 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 22 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 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. 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, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew. That is the ride.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew → Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 22 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 → 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 Mathhew is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.