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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123 km from Bardejov to Bardejov, about 2 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, Church of St Philip and St James the Apost and back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva. It crosses from Slovakia into Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Bardejov's main square is a long, gently sloping rectangle lined with Gothic and Renaissance burgher houses, their tall gables painted in pastel colours, with the Gothic Basilica of St Giles at the top and the old town hall standing alone in the middle. The town grew rich in the Middle Ages on trade between Hungary and Poland, and its walls, bastions and moat largely survive. Bardejov was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2000, along with its Jewish suburb, with a synagogue and ritual bath from the eighteenth century, a reminder of the community that lived here until the Holocaust.
Read the complete Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve write-up.
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Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
The little wooden church at Kwiatoń is often called the most beautiful of its kind in Poland, and when you see it you understand why. Built in the seventeenth century by the Lemko community, it has three parts, each topped by a tower with a bulbous cupola, rising in height from the sanctuary at the east to the bell tower at the west, all clad in wooden shingles and set in a green churchyard among old trees. Inside, painted walls and an iconostasis of icons glow in the dim light. It is one of the wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
Read the complete Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
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Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
The wooden church in Sękowa is small, dark and quietly astonishing. It stands on a slope in the Beskid Niski, the low and thickly wooded mountains of south-eastern Poland, and dates from the early sixteenth century, with a steep shingled roof, a tower with a pointed top and a gallery running around the walls. The timber has gone almost black with age, and inside the walls and ceiling are painted with colourful flowers, figures and scenes of faith from the seventeenth century. It is one of the wooden churches of southern Małopolska listed by UNESCO in 2003, and unlike a museum piece, it is still used for services.
Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of St Philip and St James the Apost. Next is back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, late in the day. Next is Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve. That is the ride.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve → Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.