CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 190 km round trip from Trieste - roughly 3 h 12 in the saddle. The stops in between: Škocjan Caves, Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba, back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba and back through Škocjan Caves. It crosses from Italy into Slovenia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Trieste is at the end of Italy, where the Adriatic ends and the Karst plateau begins, and it has a faintly melancholy beauty that comes from having once been something bigger. Under the Habsburgs it was the empire's main seaport, and the grand Piazza Unità d'Italia, open to the sea on one side, is the largest sea-facing square in Europe. The city had writers, too: James Joyce taught English here, Italo Svevo wrote about its middle class, and Rilke wrote part of the Duino Elegies at the nearby castle. Trieste is also a coffee capital, with Illy based here, and its cafes have their own vocabulary for the different ways of serving it.
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Trieste 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 23 km in.
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46 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 91 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 114 km in. Next is back through Škocjan Caves.
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137 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 Trieste.
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The route ends here after 190 km.
Trieste → Škocjan Caves is 23 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 → Trieste is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.