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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293 km from Nombre de Dios to Nombre de Dios, about 4 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Historic centre of the city of Durango, Temple of the town of San José de Avino and back through Historic centre of the city of Durango. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Nombre de Dios is one of the oldest Spanish towns in northern Mexico, founded in the 1560s by Franciscan missionaries and settlers on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the royal road that ran from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in New Mexico, carrying silver, mercury, supplies and settlers for nearly three hundred years. The road was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2010, along with a string of towns, churches, haciendas and bridges, and the temples of Nombre de Dios are among them, simple churches in stone and adobe that once served as bases for missions to the north.
Read the complete Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios write-up.
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Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios is where the day begins. Next is Historic centre of the city of Durango.
Durango was founded in 1563 by Francisco de Ibarra as the capital of Nueva Vizcaya, a huge northern province that stretched toward the unconquered frontier, and it still has the look of a frontier capital that became rich and then politely stopped. The historic centre is a tidy grid of colonial buildings in pink and yellow stone, with the Plaza de Armas at its core and the great baroque cathedral facing it. Mining money, mostly silver, paid for the arcades, mansions and theatres, and the streets are remarkably free of the clutter you find in larger cities.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Durango write-up.
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Historic centre of the city of Durango comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple of the town of San José de Avino.
Silver built this road, and the old church at San Jose de Avino is one of the buildings that mark it. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the great highway of colonial Mexico, running more than two thousand kilometres from Mexico City north to Santa Fe in New Mexico, used by mule trains carrying silver south and supplies north for nearly three centuries. A section of it, with a number of towns and monuments along the way, was listed as a World Heritage site in 2010. Avino was a mining settlement in the hills of Durango, one of the earliest silver camps of the north, and the temple stands in the village as a reminder of the money and faith that came with the mine.
Read the complete Temple of the town of San José de Avino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple of the town of San José de Avino. Next is back through Historic centre of the city of Durango.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic centre of the city of Durango write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic centre of the city of Durango, late in the day. Next is Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios. That is the ride.
Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios → Historic centre of the city of Durango is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic centre of the city of Durango → Temple of the town of San José de Avino is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple of the town of San José de Avino → back through Historic centre of the city of Durango is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic centre of the city of Durango → Temples in the town of Nombre de Dios is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.