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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From Aquileia it runs 321 km to Aquileia; allow about 5 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on, Church of St. Francis of Assisi and back through Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on. It crosses from Italy into Slovenia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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 is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 90 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of St. Francis of Assisi, 63 km on.
Ljubljana's Church of Saint Francis of Assisi stands in the Šiška district, north-west of the old centre, and it is one of the buildings by Jože Plečnik that UNESCO listed in 2021. Plečnik was born in Ljubljana in 1872, trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner, and worked in Prague, where he renovated the castle for the first Czechoslovak president, before returning to his home city in 1921. He spent the next decades remaking Ljubljana in his own style, with bridges, markets, a library and gardens, mixing classical forms with a personal, almost playful imagination. The church in Šiška, built in the late 1920s, is among his strangest and most original buildings.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Next is back through Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on, late in the day. Next is Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba. That is the ride.
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba → Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on → Church of St. Francis of Assisi is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of St. Francis of Assisi → back through Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Idrijska Bela - Putrih’s Water Barrier on → Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.