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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A 534 km round trip from Šekovići - roughly 12 h 06 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mramor in Musići, Luburića polje, Kučarin in Hrančići and Gvozno. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The hills above the Drinjača river in north-eastern Bosnia are covered with beech and oak, and in clearings on the slopes stand the stećci, large limestone tombstones, some shaped like chests and some like gabled roofs, carved with crescent moons, spirals, hands, swords and hunting scenes. Bečani is one of the places where they are found, on the outskirts of the little town of Šekovići, three kilometres away, in the eastern part of the country that is now Republika Srpska.
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Bečani is where the day begins. Next is Mramor in Musići.
In a meadow near the village of Musići, in the hills around Olovo in central Bosnia, stands a group of stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this part of the Balkans. They date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the people who raised them were Bosnian Christians, Catholics and Orthodox alike. The Musići necropolis is part of the group of stećci cemeteries inscribed by UNESCO in 2016, and its stones are among the finest: big slabs and house-shaped blocks decorated with spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes and strange, almost abstract human figures.
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Mramor in Musići comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Luburića polje.
The Romanija plateau east of Sarajevo is a strange and beautiful upland: rolling meadows and dark pine forests at around a thousand metres, under a sky that seems bigger than it should. Luburića polje, a field near the town of Sokolac, holds one of the necropolises of stećci, the medieval tombstones of the Balkans listed by UNESCO, and the surrounding countryside has been a place of burial for thousands of years.
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about 119 km into the recorded legs you reach Luburića polje. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
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Kučarin in Hrančići, about halfway. Next is Gvozno.
Out on the high karst plateau around Kalinovik, south of Sarajevo, the land opens into wide pastures and rocky hills at well over a thousand metres, ringed by the mountains of Treskavica, Lelija and Zelengora. Here and there, half-hidden in the grass, lie stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this corner of the Balkans. The necropolis at Gvozno is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, which spans Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Gvozno sits at 172 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kučarin in Hrančići.
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back through Kučarin in Hrančići comes up about 342 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Luburića polje.
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about 417 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Luburića polje. Next is back through Mramor in Musići.
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back through Mramor in Musići, late in the day. Next is Bečani.
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The route ends here after 534 km.
Bečani → Mramor in Musići is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramor in Musići → Luburića polje is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luburića polje → Kučarin in Hrančići is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Gvozno is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → back through Kučarin in Hrančići is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Luburića polje is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luburića polje → back through Mramor in Musići is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mramor in Musići → Bečani is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.