CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Katowice it runs 291 km to Katowice; allow about 4 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi, Historic Centre of Kraków, back through Historic Centre of Kraków and back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 38 km this is Polish Eagles Nests Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Katowice is the capital of Upper Silesia, and for a century it was a place of coal and steel. The region's mines and furnaces made Poland industrial, and the city grew quickly in the nineteenth century from a village into a city of brick, smoke and railway lines. In recent decades much has changed. The mines have closed and a new city has grown from the old industrial land. The Silesian Museum is built into the shafts and buildings of a former colliery, and the concert hall of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra stands beside it, a bold block of red brick and glass. Nearby, the flying-saucer shape of the Spodek arena has been a landmark since the 1970s.
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Katowice is where the day begins. Next is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
In 1600, Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, a Polish nobleman, began to build a chapel on a hill south-west of Kraków, modelled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Over the following decades, he and his descendants added dozens of chapels and churches spread over the hills, laid out to recreate the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, with the landscape itself standing in for Jerusalem. The result, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999.
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Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi comes up 31 km in. Next is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
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63 km in you reach Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. Next is Historic Centre of Kraków.
Every hour, a trumpeter plays a short melody from the taller tower of St Mary's Basilica on Kraków's market square, and every time the tune breaks off abruptly mid-phrase. Legend says it commemorates a watchman shot by a Tatar arrow in the throat as he sounded the alarm in the thirteenth century, and the hejnał has been played that way ever since, broadcast daily on Polish radio at noon. It is a fitting introduction to a city that wears its history so openly. The Rynek Główny, the main square, is one of the largest medieval squares in Europe, with the Renaissance Cloth Hall in the middle, and the historic centre, including Wawel Hill and the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, was among the first sites ever placed on the UNESCO list in 1978.
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Historic Centre of Kraków, about halfway.
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Historic Centre of Kraków sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Kraków.
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back through Historic Centre of Kraków comes up 156 km in. Next is back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
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188 km in you reach back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. Next is back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
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back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi, late in the day. Next is Katowice.
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The route ends here after 291 km.
Katowice → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → Historic Centre of Kraków is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Kraków → back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → Katowice is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.