CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 588 km round trip from Split - roughly 14 h 50 in the saddle. On the way it passes Velika and Mala Crljivica, Stari Grad Plain, The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik and back through Stari Grad Plain. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Split began as a retirement home. The Roman emperor Diocletian, born nearby, built a vast fortified palace on this peninsula around the year 300 and retired here after abdicating, to grow cabbages, so the story goes. After the Roman world fell apart, refugees from the nearby city of Salona sheltered inside its walls, and over the centuries the palace turned into a town. Today you walk through the Golden Gate, the Peristyle and the old cellars, and find cafés, shops, apartments and washing lines inside what is, effectively, a Roman building, with the emperor's mausoleum converted into a cathedral. UNESCO lists the palace and the historic centre.
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Split is where the day begins. Next is Velika and Mala Crljivica.
Behind the Makarska Riviera the land climbs abruptly into the grey limestone of Biokovo, and on the inland side of that range lies a high, stony plateau called the Dalmatian Zagora, a country of dry-stone walls, thin soil and scattered villages. Velika and Mala Crljivica, the Greater and Lesser Crljivica, sit in this landscape near the small town of Lovreć, about twenty-one kilometres from Omiš and a little further from Imotski, and the site is a field of old tombstones.
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Velika and Mala Crljivica comes up 57 km in. Next is Stari Grad Plain.
Hvar's best farmland is not on a hillside but on a flat, fertile plain just inland from the town of Stari Grad, and it has been laid out in the same pattern for about twenty-four centuries. Greek settlers from Paros founded a colony called Pharos here in the fourth century BC, and they divided the plain into neat rectangular plots, marked out by dry-stone walls. The walls are still there, the plots still follow the old grid, and the people who farm them today are growing grapes and olives much as their predecessors did. UNESCO listed the plain as a World Heritage site in 2008, and for once the listing is tied to something you can actually walk across.
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114 km in you reach Stari Grad Plain.
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Stari Grad Plain, about halfway. Next is The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik.
Croatian cathedrals are usually built of brick and timber, so the first odd thing about St James in Šibenik is that it is made entirely of stone, vaulted and roofed in carefully shaped slabs that lock together without a scrap of wood or mortar in the structure. It took more than a century to finish, from the 1430s into the 1530s, and the work passed through the hands of Juraj Dalmatinac and later Niccolò Fiorentino, which is why Gothic and Renaissance ideas sit in the same building. UNESCO added it to the World Heritage list in 2000.
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The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik sits at 229 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stari Grad Plain.
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back through Stari Grad Plain comes up 286 km in.
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343 km in you reach back through Stari Grad Plain. Next is back through Velika and Mala Crljivica.
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back through Velika and Mala Crljivica, late in the day. Next is Split.
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The route ends here after 588 km.
Split → Velika and Mala Crljivica is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Velika and Mala Crljivica → Stari Grad Plain is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stari Grad Plain → The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik → back through Stari Grad Plain is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stari Grad Plain → back through Velika and Mala Crljivica is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Velika and Mala Crljivica → Split is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.