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 Oświęcim it runs 402 km to Oświęcim; allow about 7 h of riding. On the way it passes Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and, Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka and back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Birkenau is the second and largest part of the Auschwitz camp complex, built by the Nazi regime from 1941 on the flat land near Brzezinka, just outside Oświęcim in southern Poland. It is where most of the million or so people murdered at Auschwitz were killed, the great majority of them Jews. The camp was meant to be seen from the entrance, with the brick gatehouse and the railway line running straight through it, and that scale is the first thing that silences visitors. There is no softening it, and nobody who goes should expect to.
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Birkenau is where the day begins. Next is Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
Upper Silesia is Poland's industrial heart, a densely built region of coal mines, steelworks, spoil heaps and tidy brick housing, and at its northern edge lies Tarnowskie Gory, a town of about sixty thousand people that grew up around silver, lead and zinc. The mine and its underground water system were inscribed by UNESCO in 2017, and the town's historic centre is about a kilometre from the entrance. Katowice, the regional capital, is some thirty kilometres to the south-east.
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Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka.
Wieliczka is a town that sits on top of a vanished sea. Millions of years ago, this part of southern Poland lay under a shallow, salty basin, and as the water evaporated it left thick beds of rock salt, which people have mined for about seven hundred years. The Saltworks Castle, the Żupny Castle, was the administrative heart of the business, a medieval fortified complex that housed the managers, the accounts and the royal officers who ran one of the richest enterprises in Poland, since salt was money. For centuries the revenue from Wieliczka and neighbouring Bochnia paid a significant share of the Crown's expenses.
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about 201 km into the recorded legs you reach Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka. Next is back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and, late in the day. Next is Birkenau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Birkenau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Birkenau. That is the ride.
Birkenau → Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka → back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → Birkenau is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.