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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406 km from Temoac to Temoac, about 7 h 05 of riding. The stops in between: Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio, Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1 and Former college of San Francisco Javier in. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio.
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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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio. Next is Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1.
Mexico City is built on a lake, or rather it was, and Xochimilco is the part of that old water world that survived. Before the Spanish, the Aztecs and their neighbours built chinampas, narrow artificial islands of mud and reeds held in place by willow trees, and farmed them intensively to feed Tenochtitlan. Canals ran between the plots, and the whole system was a remarkably productive kind of garden. A part of it still works, and it earned a place on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 1987. The name is Nahuatl and means roughly the place of flowers, which suits the nurseries that fill the district.
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Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1, about halfway. Next is Former college of San Francisco Javier in.
Tepotzotlán is a Pueblo Mágico just off the highway north of Mexico City, and its heart is a building that stops you in your tracks. The old Jesuit college of San Francisco Javier was a training centre for the order in New Spain, a place where novices learned theology and native languages before being sent out across the colony. When the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 the college passed to others, and today it houses the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, one of the best collections of colonial art in the country. It also forms part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the silver road that ran north from the capital towards Santa Fe, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010.
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Former college of San Francisco Javier in sits at 197 km, about halfway. Next is back through Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1.
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back through Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1 comes up about 275 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio.
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about 325 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, late in the day. Next is Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat.
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The route ends here after 406 km.
Temple and Former Convent of the Immaculat → 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 Assomptio is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio → Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1 is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1 → Former college of San Francisco Javier in is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Former college of San Francisco Javier in → back through Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1 is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Xochimilco Federal District: Xochimilco 1 → back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of the Assomptio → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.