CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Malmö it runs 400 km to Malmö; allow about 6 h 13 of riding. It goes by way of Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Store Dyrehave, The par force hunting landscape in North Z and Stevns Klint. It crosses from Sweden into Denmark - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Malmo faces Copenhagen across the water, and for most of its history it was the second city of the Danish kingdom. Skane, the southern province of Sweden, belonged to Denmark until 1658, and the old centre of Malmo, with its big square, its brick Gothic church of St Peter and its castle, still has a faintly Danish look. In the twentieth century, the city built ships and cars, and when the shipyards closed in the 1980s it fell into a slump. The comeback has been spectacular. Old docks became housing and parkland, and the Turning Torso, a twisting skyscraper by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, finished in 2005, now stands as the city's emblem.
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Malmo is where the day begins. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
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Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Store Dyrehave.
North of Copenhagen the royal family once hunted on a scale that reshaped the landscape, and Store Dyrehave, the Great Deer Park, near Hillerød, is a piece of that design. The forest is cut by straight rides, long avenues that radiate like the spokes of a wheel, so that horsemen and hounds could follow a stag at speed without losing sight of it. This kind of hunting, called par force, was fashionable at European courts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Danish kings built an entire landscape for it, now recognised by UNESCO as the Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand.
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about 96 km into the recorded legs you reach Store Dyrehave. Next is The par force hunting landscape in North Z.
Par force hunting sounds like a French affectation, and it was. The kings of Denmark in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries imported the style from the French court, in which riders on horseback and packs of hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. To make it work, they needed a landscape designed for speed, and in North Zealand the royal foresters cut long, straight rides through the woods, many of them meeting at star-shaped crossings, so that the hunters could see the quarry and keep control of the chase. The pattern is still visible in the forests of Gribskov and Store Dyrehave, and UNESCO listed the landscape in 2015.
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The par force hunting landscape in North Z, about halfway. Next is Stevns Klint.
Stevns Klint is a white cliff of chalk and limestone, some fifteen kilometres long, on the east coast of Zealand, south of Copenhagen, and it holds one of the most important records of a global catastrophe. About sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, causing a mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth. In the cliff, a thin, dark layer of clay, called the fish clay, marks that moment, and it contains high levels of iridium, a metal rare on Earth but common in asteroids. This layer was a key piece of evidence for the impact theory, and the cliff was listed by UNESCO in 2014.
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Stevns Klint sits at 170 km, about halfway. Next is back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z.
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back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z comes up about 295 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Store Dyrehave.
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about 303 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Store Dyrehave. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
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back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, late in the day. Next is Malmo.
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The route ends here after 400 km.
Malmo → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Store Dyrehave is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The par force hunting landscape in North Z → Stevns Klint is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stevns Klint → back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Store Dyrehave → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Malmo is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.