CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 409 km round trip from Žilina - roughly 7 h 08 in the saddle. On the way it passes Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the, Tvrdosin, Hronsek and back through Hronsek. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 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 comes up 48 km in. Next is Tvrdosin.
Tvrdošín lies in Orava, the northernmost corner of Slovakia, where the Orava river has been dammed to form a long reservoir under the dark ridges of the Western Tatras and the Roháče. It is a border country, not far from Poland, and a place of wood, snow and sheep, where for centuries people built in timber. The town has a wooden church that stands among the oldest in Slovakia, the Church of All Saints, built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century in Gothic style with a steep shingled roof, and its interior is painted with scenes in a folk style that moves between the grand and the endearing. It is one of the Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, which UNESCO listed in 2008.
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96 km in you reach Tvrdosin. Next is Hronsek.
The wooden church at Hronsek looks at first like a large barn with a steep shingle roof, standing among old lime trees in a village in the Hron valley. It is in fact one of the rarest kinds of building in Central Europe: an articular church, built for Lutheran worshippers in 1726 under strict conditions imposed by the Catholic Habsburg authorities. After decades of religious conflict, the Hungarian diet of 1681 allowed Protestants to build churches in certain places, but they had to be made entirely of wood, without stone foundations or metal nails, outside the village centre, with no tower, and built within a single year. The Hronsek church was constructed of spruce and larch, held together by wooden joints, and it can seat more than a thousand people. A separate wooden bell tower stands beside it. Along with other wooden churches in the region, it was listed by UNESCO in 2008.
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Hronsek, about halfway. Next is Hronsek.
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Hronsek sits at 193 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hronsek.
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back through Hronsek comes up 241 km in. Next is back through Tvrdosin.
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289 km in you reach back through Tvrdosin. Next is back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the.
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back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the, late in the day. Next is Zilina.
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The route ends here after 409 km.
Zilina → Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tvrdošín → Hronsek is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hronsek → back through Tvrdosin is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → Zilina is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.