CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 497 km round trip from Budapest VI. kerület - roughly 7 h 13 in the saddle. It goes by way of Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding, Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the and back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Andrássy Avenue is Budapest at its most confident. It was laid out in the 1870s as a grand boulevard from the city centre to the City Park, lined with neo-Renaissance mansions, embassies and the State Opera House, completed in 1884, and it runs straight and wide under rows of plane trees. UNESCO listed it in 2002, together with the first underground railway on the European continent, the Millennium Underground, which opened in 1896, a few years before the Paris metro, and runs just beneath the avenue.
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Andrássy Avenue and the Underground is where the day begins. Next is Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
Hollókő is a village of about three hundred people in the Cserhát hills of northern Hungary, thirty-odd kilometres south of the Slovak border, and it is one of the few places in Europe where a whole way of life has been kept, not by a museum but by the people still living in the houses. It was one of the first places inscribed by UNESCO, in 1987, as a living example of a traditional village of the Palóc, a Hungarian ethnic group of this region.
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Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding comes up about 117 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the.
Banská Štiavnica is a town built into a volcano. A great crater, the caldera of an extinct volcano, surrounds the place, and the streets climb steeply up its inner slopes, so that the whole centre is a tumble of pastel houses, churches and castles on a hillside. Silver and gold were mined here from the Middle Ages, and in the eighteenth century the town was one of the richest in the Habsburg Empire. In 1762 the mining academy was founded, one of the first technical colleges in the world, and its graduates carried mining knowledge to many countries. UNESCO listed the town in 1993, along with its technical monuments.
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about 249 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the. Next is back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding, late in the day. Next is Andrássy Avenue and the Underground.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Andrássy Avenue and the Underground write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Andrássy Avenue and the Underground. That is the ride.
Andrássy Avenue and the Underground → Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding → Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the → back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding → Andrássy Avenue and the Underground is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.