CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Mostar it runs 622 km to Mostar; allow about 15 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup, Kalufi in Krekovi, Boljuni and Potkuk in Bitunja. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The bridge defines Mostar, and the bridge was rebuilt. The Stari Most, the Old Bridge, was designed by the Ottoman architect Hayreddin and finished in 1566, a single high arch of pale stone crossing the green Neretva. The town takes its name from the bridge keepers, the mostari, who watched it. For more than four centuries it stood, until in November 1993, during the Bosnian war, it was destroyed by shelling and fell into the river. A faithful reconstruction opened in 2004, using local stone and traditional methods, and the old town around it is now listed by UNESCO.
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Mostar is where the day begins. Next is Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup.
The Greek hillock, Grčka glavica, is a misleading name: the medieval tombstones that crown it have nothing to do with Greece. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, folk tradition often credited the stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones of the region, to Greeks, giants or other mysterious ancestors, and the names have stuck. The necropolis near the village of Biskup, in the hills south of Konjic, is a group of these stones, some decorated with reliefs of crosses, rosettes, hunting scenes or figures, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of stećci medieval tombstone graveyards, listed in 2016.
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Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup comes up about 101 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
The Nevesinjsko polje is a broad, flat-floored basin high in the karst of eastern Herzegovina, ringed by bare limestone hills, and at Krekovi, near its edge, a group of stećci known as Kalufi stands in the grass. These medieval tombstones, carved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, belong to the transnational World Heritage Site inscribed in 2016. At Krekovi you find slabs, chests and gabled forms, some decorated with crosses, rosettes and borders, set in rows facing roughly east to west in the old tradition.
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about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is Boljuni.
In the stony hills of eastern Herzegovina, a few kilometres from Stolac, a field of grey limestone blocks lies scattered among oak scrub and dry grass. These are stećci, medieval tombstones carved between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Boljuni has a few hundred of them, many decorated with reliefs: rosettes, crescents, spirals, hunters with spears, dancing figures holding hands, a man raising an oversized hand as if in greeting. Nobody fully agrees on who made them or what all the symbols mean, which makes standing among them oddly moving. Together with other cemeteries across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, Boljuni is part of the UNESCO site of Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards, inscribed in 2016.
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Boljuni, about halfway. Next is Potkuk in Bitunja.
Grey limestone, thin grass, a scatter of oaks and juniper, and among them heavy blocks of carved stone lying where they were set some six or seven hundred years ago. Potkuk, near the hamlet of Bitunja in eastern Herzegovina, is one of the necropolises of stećci, the medieval tombstones that were added to the World Heritage list in 2016 together with sites across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Potkuk in Bitunja sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Boljuni.
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back through Boljuni comes up about 346 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kalufi in Krekovi.
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about 422 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is back through Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup.
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back through Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup, late in the day. Next is Mostar.
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The route ends here after 622 km.
Mostar → Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → Kalufi in Krekovi is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalufi in Krekovi → Boljuni is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boljuni → Potkuk in Bitunja is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Potkuk in Bitunja → back through Boljuni is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boljuni → back through Kalufi in Krekovi is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalufi in Krekovi → back through Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → Mostar is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.