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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285 km from Scheia to Scheia, about 6 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap, Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of, Churches of Moldavia and Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Suceava is the old capital of Moldavia, and the church of St George sits at its edge, a short ride from the ring of newer apartment blocks that now surround the medieval centre. It was built in the early sixteenth century under Bogdan III, son of Stephen the Great, and it belongs to the small family of Moldavian churches that UNESCO lists together. The family resemblance is easy to see once you have visited two or three: steep roofs, a short tower over the nave, buttresses, and walls that were once painted inside and out in blue, red and ochre.
Read the complete Church of St George of Suceava write-up.
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Church of St George of Suceava is where the day begins. Next is Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap.
Arbore is a village in Bucovina, in the north of Romania, and its church is one of the famous painted churches of Moldavia. It was built in 1503 by Luca Arbore, a nobleman at the court of Stephen the Great, and dedicated to the Beheading of St John the Baptist. Like the other painted churches of the region, its exterior walls are covered with frescoes, applied in the sixteenth century to teach the Bible to ordinary people who could not read. Arbore's frescoes, painted around 1541, are known for their green tones, and while weather has faded the walls facing the prevailing wind, the west facade still shows scenes of the Last Judgement, saints and the Book of Genesis in remarkable detail. UNESCO lists it among the eight churches of northern Moldavia.
Read the complete Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap write-up.
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Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of.
The painted monasteries of Bukovina are among the most extraordinary buildings in Europe, and the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin at Humor, just outside Gura Humorului in north-eastern Romania, is one of the finest. Built in 1530 and painted inside and out a few years later, it belongs to the group of churches that were inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1993. The outer walls are covered with frescoes in rich shades of red and brown, telling biblical stories and lives of saints to people who could not read.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of. Next is Churches of Moldavia.
Sucevița is the last and the largest of the great painted monasteries of Bucovina, and when you come down into its valley and see it for the first time, a squat fortress of white walls and towers with a church inside painted from eaves to plinth in deep greens, reds and blues, it stops you in your tracks. It was built in the 1580s and 1590s by the Movilă family, princes and churchmen of Moldavia, and its frescoes are among the best preserved of all the painted churches. UNESCO groups it with seven others as the churches of Moldavia.
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Churches of Moldavia, about halfway. Next is Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster.
Moldovița is the monastery that makes people go quiet in the courtyard. It sits in a green pocket of the Bukovina hills, ringed by a stout defensive wall with corner towers, and inside it the Church of the Annunciation is painted from the ground to the eaves with saints, prophets and battle scenes in blues, reds and ochres that have survived some five centuries of Carpathian weather. It was founded in the time of Petru Rareș, in the 1530s, and it belongs to the famous group of painted churches of northern Moldavia that UNESCO lists together.
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Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Churches of Moldavia.
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Read the complete Churches of Moldavia write-up.
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back through Churches of Moldavia comes up about 178 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of.
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Read the complete Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of write-up.
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about 221 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of. Next is back through Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap write-up.
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back through Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap, late in the day. Next is Church of St George of Suceava.
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Read the complete Church of St George of Suceava write-up.
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The route ends here after 285 km.
Church of St George of Suceava → Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap → Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of → Churches of Moldavia is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Churches of Moldavia → Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster → back through Churches of Moldavia is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Churches of Moldavia → back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of → back through Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap → Church of St George of Suceava is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.