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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From Gorlice it runs 326 km to Gorlice; allow about 7 h 04 of riding. On the way it passes Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve, Ladomirová and back through Ladomirová. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The wooden church in Sękowa is small, dark and quietly astonishing. It stands on a slope in the Beskid Niski, the low and thickly wooded mountains of south-eastern Poland, and dates from the early sixteenth century, with a steep shingled roof, a tower with a pointed top and a gallery running around the walls. The timber has gone almost black with age, and inside the walls and ceiling are painted with colourful flowers, figures and scenes of faith from the seventeenth century. It is one of the wooden churches of southern Małopolska listed by UNESCO in 2003, and unlike a museum piece, it is still used for services.
Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
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Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is where the day begins. Next is Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Hidden among the hills of the Beskid Sądecki, close to the Slovak border in southern Poland, the little wooden church at Powroźnik is one of the oldest of its kind still standing in the country. Its oldest parts date from around 1600, and it belongs to the group of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. A tserkva is an Eastern-rite church, and this one was built by the Lemkos, the Rusyn highlanders who farmed these valleys for centuries until most were forcibly resettled after the Second World War. Today it serves as a Catholic church, but the shape tells its origin story at once: a tower with a bulging onion-like cap, stepped shingle roofs and dark timber walls weathered almost black.
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Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve.
Bardejov's main square is a long, gently sloping rectangle lined with Gothic and Renaissance burgher houses, their tall gables painted in pastel colours, with the Gothic Basilica of St Giles at the top and the old town hall standing alone in the middle. The town grew rich in the Middle Ages on trade between Hungary and Poland, and its walls, bastions and moat largely survive. Bardejov was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2000, along with its Jewish suburb, with a synagogue and ritual bath from the eighteenth century, a reminder of the community that lived here until the Holocaust.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve. Next is Ladomirová.
In the village of Ladomirová, just north of Svidník in north-eastern Slovakia, a small wooden church dedicated to the Archangel Michael stands on a gentle rise among trees. Built in the eighteenth century by the Greek Catholic community without using a single nail, it has three wooden towers with onion-shaped tops, rising in height from east to west, and its interior holds an iconostasis of painted icons. It is one of the eight wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians inscribed together by UNESCO in 2008, and its simplicity and craftsmanship are deeply moving.
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Ladomirová, about halfway.
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Read the complete Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve write-up.
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Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve sits at 150 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ladomirová.
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back through Ladomirová comes up about 201 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve.
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Read the complete Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve write-up.
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about 239 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve. Next is back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
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back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, late in the day. Next is Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
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Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
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The route ends here after 326 km.
Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve → Ladomirová is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ladomirová → Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve → back through Ladomirová is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ladomirová → back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve → back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.