CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Tochimilco it runs 267 km to Tochimilco; allow about 5 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew, Historic Centre of Puebla, Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael and back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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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Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is where the day begins. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew.
Calpan is a small town on the lower slopes of Popocatépetl, and in its centre stands a sixteenth-century Franciscan convent that is one of the masterpieces of early colonial art in Mexico. Built soon after the Spanish conquest, when friars were racing to convert the Indigenous population, the church is set within a huge walled atrium where crowds could gather for open-air Mass. In each corner of the atrium stands a posa, a small chapel used for processions, and the four posas at Calpan are covered in astonishing carved reliefs: the Last Judgment, the Annunciation, saints and symbols, carved by Indigenous craftsmen who mixed European designs with their own style.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew comes up 36 km in. Next is Historic Centre of Puebla.
Puebla was founded in 1531 as a Spanish city from the start, laid out on a grid between the volcanoes and the road from Veracruz to Mexico City, and it grew into one of the richest towns of New Spain. Its historic centre is a World Heritage site, and walking through it you see why: dozens of churches, palaces and mansions, many covered in the hand-painted Talavera tiles for which the city is still famous. The cathedral, with its two tall towers, dominates the main square, and a few blocks away the Rosary Chapel of the church of Santo Domingo is a dazzling space of gilded stucco and carved angels that has to be seen to be believed.
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71 km in you reach Historic Centre of Puebla. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael.
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.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael write-up.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael, about halfway.
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Historic Centre of Puebla sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael comes up 178 km in. Next is back through Historic Centre of Puebla.
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213 km in you reach back through Historic Centre of Puebla. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio.
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The route ends here after 267 km.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew → Historic Centre of Puebla is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Puebla → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael → Historic Centre of Puebla is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Puebla → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Michael → back through Historic Centre of Puebla is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Puebla → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew → Temple and Former Convent of the Assumptio is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.