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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A 457 km round trip from Trieste - roughly 6 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power, The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp, Kolišča na Igu and Količa na Igu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Italy into Slovenia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 75 km of Trieste → Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power.
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 Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power, 48 km on.
Cividale del Friuli was founded as Forum Iulii, a market town established by Julius Caesar, and it gave its name to the whole region of Friuli. In 568, when the Lombards crossed the Alps and invaded Italy, Cividale was the first city they took, and it became the seat of their first duchy. The Lombards ruled much of Italy for two centuries, and Cividale preserves some of the finest traces of their culture. The Tempietto Longobardo, a small eighth-century chapel overlooking the river, holds a row of stucco female saints of extraordinary grace, among the most beautiful works of art of the early Middle Ages. It is the centrepiece of the UNESCO listing of the Longobards in Italy, Places of the Power, along with sites from Brescia to Benevento. The National Archaeological Museum displays jewellery, weapons and grave goods from Lombard tombs.
Read the complete Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power write-up.
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Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp.
Cividale del Friuli sits where the Natisone river leaves its green valleys and meets the Friulian plain, in the far north-east of Italy, a few kilometres from the Slovenian border. Julius Caesar is said to have founded it as Forum Iulii, which later gave the whole region its name, and in 568 the Lombards, a Germanic people who invaded Italy, made it the seat of their first duchy. UNESCO lists seven Lombard sites across Italy together, and Cividale holds several, among them the Gastaldaga area, where the royal governor, the gastald, had his residence, and the episcopal complex with its cathedral, baptistery and museum. The label cuts off its words, but those are the two places it means.
Read the complete The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp write-up.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp. Next is Kolišča na Igu.
The oldest wheel in the world was found in a peat bog in Slovenia, and the bog is the Ljubljana Marshes. Archaeologists working here in 2002 pulled out a wooden wheel with its axle, dating from around 3100 BC, which is now in the city museum in Ljubljana. The find was made close to the village of Ig, a few kilometres south of the capital, where for centuries people built houses on stilts above the wet ground. The pile dwellings at Ig, called Kolišča in Slovenian, are one of the settlements that UNESCO lists among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
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Kolišča na Igu, about halfway. Next is Količa na Igu.
The Ljubljana Marsh is a wide, flat plain of peat and wet meadow south of the city, drained since the eighteenth century by canals, and it hides one of the most interesting stories in European prehistory. Some five thousand years ago people built houses on stilts here, at the edge of lakes that have since vanished, and the remains of their villages lie preserved in the peat. The pile dwellings near Ig are part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, shared with five other countries.
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Količa na Igu sits at 193 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kolišča na Igu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kolišča na Igu write-up.
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back through Kolišča na Igu comes up about 231 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 380 km into the recorded legs you reach back through The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp. Next is back through Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power, 48 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power, late in the day. Next is Trieste.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Trieste write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 457 km.
Trieste → Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp → Kolišča na Igu is 151 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kolišča na Igu → back through The Gastaldaga area and the Episcopal comp is 149 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power → Trieste is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.