CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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224 km from Budva to Budva, about 5 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes St. Barbara, Lokrum Island, Old City of Dubrovnik and back through Old City of Dubrovnik. It crosses from Montenegro into Croatia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 59 km this is Adriatic Highway, Jadranska Magistrala, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Budva is one of the oldest towns on the Adriatic, and it carries the claim lightly, between nightclubs. The walled old town sits on a small rocky peninsula, a tight cluster of stone houses, churches and narrow lanes protected by a ring of Venetian walls, and tradition suggests that a settlement has stood here for about two and a half thousand years. In 1979 a strong earthquake damaged much of it, and the rebuilt streets have a slightly too-neat look. The citadel on the seaward side, with its small museum, gives a view along the coast.
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Budva is where the day begins. Next is St. Barbara, 25 km on.
Konavle is the long, fertile valley that runs south east of Dubrovnik towards the Montenegrin border, and St. Barbara is a small church at Dubravka, near its upper edge, surrounded by a field of medieval tombstones. These stećci, heavy carved blocks of limestone dating from the late Middle Ages, are part of the cross-border UNESCO listing of stećci cemeteries shared by Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. The Dubravka group is one of the most accessible in Croatia, and the setting, with the church, the old stones and the view over the valley, is quietly beautiful.
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St. Barbara comes up 25 km in. Next is Lokrum Island.
From the walls of Dubrovnik you look straight across a short stretch of sea to a low, dark green island covered in pines and holm oaks. That is Lokrum, and it is the closest thing the city has to a back garden. No cars or motorbikes are allowed on it, and nobody may stay overnight. You leave the bike on the mainland, catch one of the regular boats from the old harbour, and in about a quarter of an hour you step onto a quay with peacocks strutting about as if they owned the place, which they more or less do.
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At least 71 km in you reach Lokrum Island. Next is Old City of Dubrovnik.
Dubrovnik is the place where the Dalmatian coast reaches its theatrical climax: a walled city of pale limestone thrust out into a sea that refuses to be any colour but deep blue. The walls run for nearly two kilometres around the old town, with towers, bastions and the great Minčeta fortress on the landward side, and inside them the marble-paved Stradun runs straight from the Pile Gate to the old port. For centuries this was the Republic of Ragusa, a small, astute maritime state that survived between Venice and the Ottoman Empire through trade, diplomacy and a famously effective tribute system, until Napoleon ended its independence in the early nineteenth century.
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Old City of Dubrovnik, about halfway. Next is Old City of Dubrovnik.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old City of Dubrovnik write-up.
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Old City of Dubrovnik sits at 98 km, about halfway. Next is back through Old City of Dubrovnik.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old City of Dubrovnik write-up.
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back through Old City of Dubrovnik comes up 123 km in. Next is back through Lokrum Island.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lokrum Island write-up.
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147 km in you reach back through Lokrum Island. Next is back through St. Barbara, 25 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete St. Barbara write-up.
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back through St. Barbara, late in the day. Next is Budva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Budva write-up.
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The route ends here after 224 km.
Budva → St. Barbara is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
St. Barbara → Lokrum Island is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lokrum Island → back through St. Barbara is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through St. Barbara → Budva is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.