CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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97 km from Ioánnina to Ioánnina, about 2 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Zagori Cultural Landscape and back through Zagori Cultural Landscape. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 34 km this is Greece Meteora and Pindus Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Ioannina wraps itself around a lake, and the lake is the first thing to understand about it. Lake Pamvotida lies flat and grey-green beside the city, with a small wooded island in the middle that holds a cluster of monasteries and a village, reached by a short boat from the waterfront. Behind the city rise the limestone ranges of Epirus, the Pindus mountains, which isolated this part of north-west Greece for centuries and gave it a character quite unlike the islands and the south.
Read the complete Ioannina write-up.
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Ioannina is where the day begins. Next is Zagori Cultural Landscape.
In the mountains north of Ioannina, forty-odd stone villages cling to the slopes of the Pindus, linked by cobbled mule paths and arched bridges that seem to grow out of the rock. This is Zagori, a region of grey slate roofs, plane trees, rushing streams and one of the deepest gorges in the world, Vikos. In 2023 it was added to the World Heritage list as a cultural landscape, recognising how people and mountains shaped each other here over centuries.
Read the complete Zagori Cultural Landscape write-up.
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Zagori Cultural Landscape comes up 18 km in.
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Read the complete Zagori Cultural Landscape write-up.
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36 km in you reach Zagori Cultural Landscape. Next is back through Zagori Cultural Landscape.
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Read the complete Zagori Cultural Landscape write-up.
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back through Zagori Cultural Landscape, late in the day. Next is Ioannina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ioannina write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ioannina. That is the ride.
Ioannina → Zagori Cultural Landscape is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zagori Cultural Landscape → Ioannina is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.