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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231 km from Scheia to Scheia, about 4 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap, Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti, Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of and back through Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti.
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 Holy Rood of Patrauti.
In 1487 Stephen the Great of Moldavia had a small church built at Pătrăuți, dedicated to the Holy Rood, and it still stands, among the earliest of his many foundations and today part of the UNESCO listing of Moldavian churches. It is a modest building, whitewashed and low, with a steep roof, and it stands in a village on the edge of Suceava county, a stone's throw from Dărmănești. The scale surprises people who come expecting a cathedral, and then the frescoes inside bring them up short.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti. 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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Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of, about halfway. Next is back through Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti.
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Read the complete Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti write-up.
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back through Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap.
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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 comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of St George of Suceava.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of St George of Suceava write-up.
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Church of St George of Suceava closes the day.
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 Holy Rood of Patrauti is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti → Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of → back through Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Holy Rood of Patrauti → back through Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap is 32 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.