CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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289 km from Kalamata to Kalamata, about 5 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, Archaeological Site of Olympia, back through Archaeological Site of Olympia and back through Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.
Kalamata is the doorway to the Mani, and the olive capital of Greece, as the dark purple Kalamata olive is known the world over. Groves of olive trees fill the plain of Messenia, and the city sits at the head of the gulf with the great wall of the Taygetos range rising behind it, its summit at Profitis Ilias well over two thousand metres, often capped with snow into spring. The city is a lively mix of seafront, markets and a pedestrian old town, and was rebuilt after a damaging earthquake in 1986.
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Kalamata is where the day begins. Next is Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.
At over a thousand metres in the mountains of Arcadia, on a rocky shoulder above the gorges of the Neda, stands one of the best preserved temples of ancient Greece, and since the 1980s it has stood under a vast white tent. The Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae was built in the fifth century BC by the people of nearby Phigalia, who dedicated it to Apollo the helper, it is said, for saving them from plague. Ancient writers attributed its design to Iktinos, one of the architects of the Parthenon. It was the first Greek monument in Greece to be listed as a World Heritage Site, in 1986.
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Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae comes up 27 km in.
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54 km in you reach Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. Next is Archaeological Site of Olympia.
Every four years, for more than a thousand years, a truce was declared across the Greek world so that athletes could travel to Olympia. The sanctuary lies in a green valley in the western Peloponnese, where the Alfeios river meets a smaller stream, below the pine-covered Hill of Kronos. The traditional date of the first Games is 776 BC, and they carried on until the Roman emperor Theodosius put an end to pagan festivals at the end of the fourth century AD. The statue of Zeus made by Phidias for the temple here, a giant seated figure of gold and ivory, was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, though it has long since vanished.
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Archaeological Site of Olympia, about halfway. Next is Archaeological Site of Olympia.
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Archaeological Site of Olympia sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Archaeological Site of Olympia.
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back through Archaeological Site of Olympia comes up 136 km in. Next is back through Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.
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163 km in you reach back through Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.
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back through Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, late in the day. Next is Kalamata.
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The route ends here after 289 km.
Kalamata → Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae → Archaeological Site of Olympia is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Archaeological Site of Olympia → back through Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae → Kalamata is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.