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 225 km round trip from Cuernavaca - roughly 4 h 04 in the saddle. On the way it passes Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th, Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t, Temple and Former Convent of Saint William and back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Franciscans arrived in Cuernavaca in the 1520s, just a few years after the Spanish conquest, and the fortress like convent they built here, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, is now the city's cathedral. Its massive church, with walls thick enough for defence and an open chapel for preaching to crowds of indigenous converts, is one of the earliest sixteenth century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl listed as a World Heritage Site in 1994. Inside, murals uncovered in the twentieth century show the martyrdom of Christian missionaries in Japan in 1597, a striking reminder of how far the Franciscan world reached; one of the martyrs, Felipe de Jesús, was born in Mexico City.
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Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio is where the day begins. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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 comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t. 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 back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t sits at 126 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th comes up about 175 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio.
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Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio closes the day.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio → Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 35 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 Saint William is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint James t → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.