CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 282 km round trip from Žilina - roughly 5 h 26 in the saddle. On the way it passes Vlkolínec, Lestiny, Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the and back through Lestiny. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Zilina sits where three rivers meet, the Vah, the Kysuca and the Rajcianka, in a basin of northwestern Slovakia surrounded by the Mala Fatra, the Javorniky and the Kysuce hills. That position at a crossroads made it an important trading town, and its old square, with arcaded houses and a Renaissance bell tower, is among the most handsome in Slovakia. The Burian Tower, a tall free-standing belfry in the old town, can be climbed for a view over the roofs. The cathedral next to it, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is baroque.
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Zilina is where the day begins. Next is Vlkolínec.
At the end of a narrow road climbing out of Ružomberok, a single street of log houses runs up a hillside meadow beneath the forests of the Veľká Fatra. Vlkolínec has been a World Heritage Site since 1993, chosen as the most complete surviving example of a traditional Central European mountain village of its kind, and it remains a lived-in place rather than an open-air museum, with residents, gardens and the occasional dog asleep in the sun.
Read the complete Vlkolínec write-up.
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Vlkolínec comes up 28 km in. Next is Vlkolínec.
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57 km in you reach Vlkolínec. Next is Lestiny.
Leštiny is a small village in the Orava region of northern Slovakia, a short distance from Dolný Kubín, and its pride is a wooden Lutheran church that looks, from outside, more like a large farmhouse than a place of worship. This is one of the articular churches, built under strict conditions imposed in the late seventeenth century, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed in 2008.
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Lestiny, about halfway. Next is Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the.
The Church of All Saints in Tvrdošín, at the edge of the town in the Orava valley, is a wooden Gothic church from the fifteenth century, built of larch and fir, with a shingled roof, a tower with a distinctive spire and a painted interior, and it is one of the oldest of the wooden churches listed as a World Heritage Site in Slovakia. Its Renaissance and Baroque decorations, including a carved altar and paintings, were added over the centuries.
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Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lestiny.
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back through Lestiny comes up 141 km in. Next is back through Vlkolínec.
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170 km in you reach back through Vlkolínec. Next is back through Vlkolínec.
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back through Vlkolínec, late in the day. Next is Zilina.
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Read the complete Zilina write-up.
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The route ends here after 282 km.
Zilina → Vlkolínec is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vlkolínec → Lestiny is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leštiny → Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → back through Lestiny is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lestiny → back through Vlkolínec is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vlkolínec → Zilina is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.