CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Koper it runs 216 km to Koper; allow about 3 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Škocjan Caves, Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba, back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba and back through Škocjan Caves. It crosses from Slovenia into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Koper is Slovenia's seaport, a small walled town on a peninsula in the north of the Adriatic, and it spent centuries as a Venetian city. The Venetians called it Capodistria, and ruled it from the late thirteenth century until 1797, and the old centre shows it clearly. Narrow stone lanes lead to the main square, where the Praetorian Palace, a pink-and-white Gothic and Renaissance building, stands beside the Loggia and the cathedral. The bell tower can be climbed for a view over the red roofs to the bay. A short coast of only forty-six kilometres is all that Slovenia has, and it is made the most of.
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Koper is where the day begins. Next is Škocjan Caves.
Underneath the sleepy stone villages of the Slovenian Karst, a river called the Reka plunges into the earth and carves one of the largest underground canyons known anywhere. The Škocjan Caves, a UNESCO site since 1986, are the reason the word karst became the scientific name for this kind of limestone landscape everywhere in the world. Inside, a narrow footbridge spans the Reka gorge far above the roaring water, the chamber walls disappear into darkness, and the scale is so huge that your mind struggles to accept it is all underground.
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Škocjan Caves comes up 25 km in. Next is Škocjan Caves.
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51 km in you reach Škocjan Caves. Next is Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
Aquileia today is a village of fewer than three thousand people in the flat farmland of Friuli, near the head of the Adriatic, but two thousand years ago it was one of the largest and richest cities of the Roman Empire. Founded as a Latin colony in 181 BC to guard the northeastern approaches to Italy, it grew into a great trading port, connected to the sea by a river and a canal, through which amber, wine, oil and glass moved between the Mediterranean and the lands beyond the Alps. Attila sacked it in 452, and many of its people fled to the lagoons, where their descendants helped found Venice and Grado.
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Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba, about halfway. Next is Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
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Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
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back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba comes up 127 km in. Next is back through Škocjan Caves.
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152 km in you reach back through Škocjan Caves. Next is back through Škocjan Caves.
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back through Škocjan Caves, late in the day. Next is Koper.
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The route ends here after 216 km.
Koper → Škocjan Caves is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Škocjan Caves → Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba → back through Škocjan Caves is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Škocjan Caves → Koper is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.