CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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286 km from Trieste to Trieste, about 5 h 12 of riding. The stops in between: Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba, Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on and back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. 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 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 comes up 29 km in.
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58 km in you reach Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba. Next is Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
Deep in a wooded gorge above Idrija, where the stream called Idrijska Bela tumbles over pale limestone, stands one of the strangest pieces of old engineering in Slovenia: a klavže, a water barrier built of massive dressed stone blocks across the narrow valley. Its job had nothing to do with power or flood control. Idrija's mercury mine, one of the two largest in the world for centuries, devoured timber for its shafts and smelters, and the forests close to town were soon exhausted. So the miners built these dams on mountain streams, let water build up behind them, piled cut logs in the bed below and then opened the gates. The released flood swept the timber all the way down to Idrija, where it was caught at a rake across the river.
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Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, about halfway. Next is Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on.
The Klavže at Idrijska Bela are a surprising piece of engineering, a huge stone wall built across a narrow gorge in the eighteenth century, with a gate in the middle. The idea was brilliant and simple. The mercury mine at Idrija, one of the largest in Europe, needed vast quantities of timber for its shafts and furnaces, and the forests were in the hills, far from the town. So the woodcutters piled logs behind the barrier, the gate was opened and the stored water carried the logs in a rush down the stream to the mine. Such water barriers, called klavže in Slovenian, were used here for generations, and the one named after Putrih is among the grandest.
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Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
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back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the comes up 146 km in. Next is back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
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175 km in you reach back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
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back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba, late in the day. Next is Trieste.
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The route ends here after 286 km.
Trieste → Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba → Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → back through 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 → Trieste is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.