CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 503 km round trip from Budapest VIII. kerület - roughly 7 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding, Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the and back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Budapest is two cities that were joined in 1873: hilly Buda on the west bank and flat Pest on the east, with the Danube between them as the main street. The Chain Bridge, opened in 1849, was the first permanent crossing, and the lions on its ends were said to have been made without tongues, a story locals find funnier than visitors do. Above it, on Castle Hill, stand the royal palace and the Matthias Church, with its patterned roof tiles, while on the Pest bank, the Parliament, finished in 1904, sprawls along the water like a Gothic wedding cake. At night it is lit gold, and it is one of the great sights of Europe.
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Budapest is where the day begins. Next is Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
Hollókő is a village of about three hundred people in the Cserhát hills of northern Hungary, thirty-odd kilometres south of the Slovak border, and it is one of the few places in Europe where a whole way of life has been kept, not by a museum but by the people still living in the houses. It was one of the first places inscribed by UNESCO, in 1987, as a living example of a traditional village of the Palóc, a Hungarian ethnic group of this region.
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Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding comes up about 120 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the.
Banská Štiavnica is a town built into a volcano. A great crater, the caldera of an extinct volcano, surrounds the place, and the streets climb steeply up its inner slopes, so that the whole centre is a tumble of pastel houses, churches and castles on a hillside. Silver and gold were mined here from the Middle Ages, and in the eighteenth century the town was one of the richest in the Habsburg Empire. In 1762 the mining academy was founded, one of the first technical colleges in the world, and its graduates carried mining knowledge to many countries. UNESCO listed the town in 1993, along with its technical monuments.
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about 252 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the. Next is back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding, late in the day. Next is Budapest.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Budapest write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Budapest. That is the ride.
Budapest → Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is 120 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding → Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the → back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding → Budapest is 120 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.