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 116 km round trip from Ropa - roughly 3 h 07 in the saddle. On the way it passes Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection, Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska and back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
The Lemkos, a mountain people of the Carpathians, built their churches of wood, with onion domes and steep shingle roofs stepping up in tiers toward the west tower, and the one at Owczary, in the Low Beskids south of Gorlice, is one of the finest. Built in the mid seventeenth century as a Greek Catholic church, it was later enlarged and painted inside with a rich polychrome decoration. After the Second World War the Lemkos were deported from this region in Operation Vistula, and the church was taken over by the Roman Catholic parish, while the Greek Catholic community has also returned to use it. It is part of the World Heritage listing of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
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Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska.
The church of St Michael the Archangel in Binarowa looks, from the outside, like a simple barn with a tower: dark shingled walls, a steep roof and a small onion-topped belfry. Step inside and the walls and ceiling explode with colour, covered with painted decoration of saints, scenes from the Bible and floral patterns, some of them centuries old. Built around 1500 of larch and fir, without nails in the traditional joinery, it is one of the Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic churches inscribed as a World Heritage site. The local story is that it was built from timber left over from another church, but whatever its origins, the result is one of the finest wooden interiors in Poland.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska. Next is back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
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back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection, late in the day. Next is Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the. That is the ride.
Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the → Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska → back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.