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 Ropa it runs 233 km to Ropa; allow about 5 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, Hervartov, Ladomirová and back through Hervartov. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Three small wooden churches in the Beskid Niski could tell you more about the Lemko people than a library. Brunary Wyzne is a village in the Low Beskids of southern Poland, not far from the Slovak border, and its church of St Michael the Archangel, built at the end of the eighteenth century, stands at the edge of the settlement with a shingled tower and the typical three-part structure of the Lemko tradition. Inside, the painted iconostasis separates the nave from the sanctuary, as in all Eastern Christian churches, and the walls are dark with age. The church is part of the group of wooden churches of the Carpathian region on the World Heritage list, inscribed in 2013.
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Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the is where the day begins. Next is Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Hidden among the hills of the Beskid Sądecki, close to the Slovak border in southern Poland, the little wooden church at Powroźnik is one of the oldest of its kind still standing in the country. Its oldest parts date from around 1600, and it belongs to the group of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. A tserkva is an Eastern-rite church, and this one was built by the Lemkos, the Rusyn highlanders who farmed these valleys for centuries until most were forcibly resettled after the Second World War. Today it serves as a Catholic church, but the shape tells its origin story at once: a tower with a bulging onion-like cap, stepped shingle roofs and dark timber walls weathered almost black.
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Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hervartov.
Hervartov is a small village in the hills of north-eastern Slovakia, a few kilometres from Bardejov, and its wooden church of Saint Francis of Assisi is considered the oldest surviving wooden church in the country, built in the late Middle Ages in the Gothic style. It is one of eight wooden churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area inscribed by UNESCO in 2008, alongside Greek Catholic, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches that together tell the story of the many faiths and peoples of this borderland.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Hervartov. Next is Ladomirová.
In the village of Ladomirová, just north of Svidník in north-eastern Slovakia, a small wooden church dedicated to the Archangel Michael stands on a gentle rise among trees. Built in the eighteenth century by the Greek Catholic community without using a single nail, it has three wooden towers with onion-shaped tops, rising in height from east to west, and its interior holds an iconostasis of painted icons. It is one of the eight wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians inscribed together by UNESCO in 2008, and its simplicity and craftsmanship are deeply moving.
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Ladomirová, about halfway. Next is back through Hervartov.
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back through Hervartov sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
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back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 203 km into the recorded legs. Next is Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the.
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Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the closes the day.
Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Hervartov is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hervartov → Ladomirová is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ladomirová → back through Hervartov is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hervartov → back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.