CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 329 km round trip from Cuernavaca - roughly 5 h 58 in the saddle. On the way it passes Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th, Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat and back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 John th.
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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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th. 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, about halfway. 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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Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic comes up about 201 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th.
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about 239 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th. 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, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio.
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The route ends here after 329 km.
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 John th is 40 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 Dominic is 37 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 → 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 → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint John th is 40 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.