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 Ljusdal it runs 308 km to Ljusdal; allow about 5 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, Pallars, Erik Anders and back through Pallars. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the forests of Hälsingland, in central Sweden, you find farms that look as though they belong in a fairy tale. Prosperous farmers of the nineteenth century, who made their money from flax and timber, built large, many-roomed farmhouses and decorated their best rooms with paintings, wallpaper and carved details, often in rich reds, blues and golds. Several of these farms, the Hälsingegårdar, were listed by UNESCO in 2012, and others are still in private hands and used as homes. The place named on our list lies in the countryside near Ljusdal, in this farming country.
Read the complete Bommars write-up.
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Bommars is where the day begins. Next is Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland.
Farmers in nineteenth-century Hälsingland had money, thanks to flax, timber and good land, and they spent it on houses. Their large wooden farmhouses, many of them painted red with Falun copper-mine pigment, often contained rooms reserved for festivities, decorated by itinerant painters with flowers, biblical scenes and allegories in bright colours. Seven of these farms, including Pallars in Järvsö, Gästgivars in Vallsta and Bommars in Letsbo, were inscribed together by UNESCO in 2012, and stepping into their painted rooms is like entering a folk tale.
Read the complete Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland write-up.
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Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pallars.
Hälsingland, a province in central Sweden, is a country of long forested ridges and deep river valleys, and its farms are far from ordinary. Pallars, near the village of Alfta, is one of seven Hälsingland farmhouses inscribed by UNESCO in 2012 as the Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, and it stands in open farmland about six kilometres from the village, with Edsbyn twelve kilometres away and Bollnäs, the main town, about nineteen.
Read the complete Pallars write-up.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Pallars. Next is Erik Anders.
The farms of Hälsingland are one of the odder success stories of Swedish history. In the nineteenth century, farmers in this part of the country grew rich on flax and linen, and they spent their wealth not on grand manor houses but on enormous wooden farmhouses with elaborate painted interiors. Rooms were reserved for celebrations, and decorated with biblical scenes, flowers and ornamental borders by travelling artists. Seven of these farms are on the UNESCO list, among them the Erik-Anders farm, near Söderhamn, whose neat red buildings stand in a clearing among fields and forest.
Read the complete Erik Anders write-up.
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Erik Anders, about halfway. Next is back through Pallars.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pallars write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pallars sits at 212 km, about halfway. Next is back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland comes up about 273 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bommars.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bommars write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bommars closes the day.
Bommars → Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland → Pallars is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pallars → Erik Anders is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Erik Anders → back through Pallars is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pallars → back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland → Bommars is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.