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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From San Andrés Mixquic it runs 358 km to San Andrés Mixquic; allow about 7 h 10 of riding. The stops in between: Temple and Former Convent of Saint William, Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic, Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew and Historic Centre of Puebla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
San Andrés Mixquic sits on the southeastern edge of Mexico City, in the borough of Tláhuac, and it feels like a village despite being part of one of the largest cities on earth. It is famous throughout Mexico for its Day of the Dead celebrations, when the cemetery around the church of San Andrés fills with marigolds, candles and families who keep vigil through the night of 2 November, and the whole town turns into a festival of altars, music and food. The rest of the year, Mixquic is a quiet place of canals, chinampas and vegetable fields.
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Xochimilco 3 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
Hueyapan sits high on the southern flank of Popocatépetl, in the far northeast of Morelos, where pine forest and orchards climb toward the volcano and the air is noticeably thinner than in the valleys below. In the sixteenth century, Dominican friars built a convent here dedicated to Santo Domingo, with a simple church, a cloister and a walled atrium where the indigenous population gathered for worship. It is one of the fourteen sites in the UNESCO listing of the Earliest Sixteenth-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl, and while it is more modest than some of its neighbours, its setting is one of the most dramatic.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic write-up.
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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic. 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, about halfway. 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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Historic Centre of Puebla sits at 157 km, about halfway. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew comes up about 211 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic.
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Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic write-up.
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about 278 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic. Next is back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William.
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Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint William write-up.
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back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William, late in the day. Next is Xochimilco 3.
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The route ends here after 358 km.
Xochimilco 3 → Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 41 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 Saint Andrew is 68 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 31 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 Andrew is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Andrew → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint Dominic is 67 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 William is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William → Xochimilco 3 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.