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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303 km from Ljubljana to Ljubljana, about 5 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, City Fortress of Palmanova and back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Slovenia into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Five thousand years ago, someone in the marshes south of Ljubljana made a wheel, and it is still here to prove it. In 2002, archaeologists working in the peat at Stare gmajne found a wooden wheel with its axle, made of ash and oak, which turned out to be about five thousand one hundred years old, the oldest known wheel of its kind in the world. It is now in the City Museum in Ljubljana, but it was found in the Ljubljana Marshes, the Barje, a broad, flat, wet plain between the city and the hills, which was once a lake. In the Neolithic and Copper Age, people built villages on stilts above the water, and the wood, preserved in the waterlogged peat, has survived for millennia. The pile dwellings of the Barje were included in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, in 2011.
Read the complete Church of St. Michael write-up.
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Church of St. Michael is where the day begins. Next is Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
The water barriers of the Idrijca are among the strangest industrial monuments in Europe: massive stone and timber dams built across a narrow mountain river not to store water for drinking or power, but to float logs. Locals call them klavže, and the biggest have been nicknamed the Slovenian pyramids for their huge, carefully cut blocks. They lie in the deep, wooded gorge below the Vojsko plateau, a short ride from the town of Idrija.
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Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
Read the complete City Fortress of Palmanova write-up.
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about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach City Fortress of Palmanova. Next is back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, late in the day. Next is Church of St. Michael, 63 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of St. Michael write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Church of St. Michael. That is the ride.
Church of St. Michael → Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → City Fortress of Palmanova is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City Fortress of Palmanova → back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → Church of St. Michael is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.