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 Náfplio it runs 167 km to Náfplio; allow about 4 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns, Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus and back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns. The line favours views over speed.
Homer called it Tiryns of the great walls, and when you stand next to them you see that he was not exaggerating. The citadel rises from a low limestone ridge in the Argolid plain, and its walls are built of blocks so enormous that later Greeks decided only the Cyclopes, one-eyed giants, could have lifted them. The name stuck: Cyclopean masonry. Tiryns was one of the great centres of the Mycenaean world in the late Bronze Age, linked in legend to Heracles, who was said to have served its king, and its galleries are the best part. These long corridors are roofed with corbelled stone vaults, their walls polished smooth over the centuries by sheep sheltering from the weather.
Read the complete Archaeological Site of Tiryns write-up.
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Archaeological Site of Tiryns is where the day begins. Next is Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns.
The plain of Argos is a wide, flat basin of orange groves and olive trees tucked into the Peloponnese, and on its edge, a few kilometres apart, stand the two strongholds that gave the Greek Bronze Age its name. Mycenae sits on a rocky spur between two ravines, with Argos eleven kilometres to the south-west and the sea beyond, and Tiryns lies lower down near the shore, on a low rocky mound that once stood by the water.
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Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus.
Drop a coin in the centre of the orchestra at Epidaurus and people sitting in the top row, fifty-odd rows above, will hear it. The theatre of the sanctuary of Asklepios, built in the fourth century BC, is famous for its acoustics and its almost perfect state of preservation, and it still hosts performances of ancient drama during the summer festival. But the theatre was only part of the sanctuary. Epidaurus was the most famous healing centre of the ancient Greek world, where the sick came to sleep in the sacred buildings and hope that the god Asklepios would visit them in a dream with a cure.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus. Next is back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns, late in the day. Next is Archaeological Site of Tiryns.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Site of Tiryns write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Archaeological Site of Tiryns. That is the ride.
Archaeological Site of Tiryns → Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns → Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus → back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns → Archaeological Site of Tiryns is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.