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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218 km from San Andrés Mixquic to San Andrés Mixquic, about 4 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Temple and Former Convent of Saint William, Ancient Convent of the Nativity, Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew and back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint William write-up.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint William comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ancient Convent of the Nativity.
Tepoztlán sits at the foot of a wall of jagged volcanic cliffs in northern Morelos, and on the highest ridge above town, a small Aztec pyramid, the Tepozteco, dedicated to the god of pulque, clings to the rock. Down in the town, the Dominican convent of the Nativity, built in the mid-sixteenth century, is one of the monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl listed by UNESCO in 1994. Its massive church, with a facade carved with angels, the sun and the moon, and a large atrium, is impressive, and the cloister has remains of colourful mural paintings. Part of the convent houses a museum.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient Convent of the Nativity. Next is Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew.
In the green valleys south of Mexico City, on the slopes below Popocatépetl, sixteenth-century friars built a chain of fortress-like monasteries, and the church and former convent of San Mateo at Atlatlahucan is one of them. The Augustinians arrived in the 1530s, after the Spanish conquest, and set about converting the local Nahua population, building enormous, thick-walled churches with open-air chapels where crowds could attend mass in the courtyard. The group of fourteen early monasteries on the slopes of the volcano was listed by UNESCO in 1994, and the architecture is a rare sight: plain, defensive on the outside, but inside the cloister are murals painted in black and white by indigenous artists under the friars' direction.
Read the complete Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew write-up.
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Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew, about halfway. Next is back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity.
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Read the complete Ancient Convent of the Nativity write-up.
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back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity sits at 121 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 178 km into the recorded legs. Next is Xochimilco 3.
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Xochimilco 3 closes the day.
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 → Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ancient Convent of the Nativity → Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple and Former Convent of Saint Mathhew → back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ancient Convent of the Nativity → back through Temple and Former Convent of Saint William is 37 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.