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 Huejotzingo it runs 302 km to Huejotzingo; allow about 4 h 48 of riding. On the way it passes Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C, Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio, Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t and back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Behind a crenellated wall in the middle of Huejotzingo lies one of the earliest Christian buildings in the Americas: the Franciscan convent of San Miguel Arcángel, built in the decades after the Spanish conquest on the lower slopes of the volcanoes west of Puebla. The friars arrived here within a few years of the fall of Tenochtitlan, and the church, convent and walled atrium they raised are a textbook example of how the missionaries worked, with great open courtyards where crowds of indigenous converts could gather for teaching and mass. Huejotzingo is part of the UNESCO site of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl, listed in 1994.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael is where the day begins. Next is Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C.
Tlaxcala has an unusual place in Mexican history, because its people were the main allies of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of the Aztec empire. The Tlaxcalans had resisted Aztec expansion for years, and when the Spanish arrived in 1519 they chose to fight with them rather than against them. In return, they received privileges, and the Franciscan friars who arrived soon after chose Tlaxcala as their first base on the mainland. The monastery and its church, begun in the sixteenth century, still stand above the town, a plain, massive building with a fine wooden ceiling in Moorish style.
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Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C comes up about 40 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 118 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio. 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, 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 188 km, about halfway. Next is back through Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C write-up.
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back through Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C comes up about 263 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael closes the day.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael → Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C → Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 33 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 Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and C → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.