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 292 km to Gorlice; allow about 6 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, Hervartov, Bodruzal and back through Hervartov. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Hervartov.
Hervartov is a small village in the hills of north-eastern Slovakia, a few kilometres from Bardejov, and its wooden church of Saint Francis of Assisi is considered the oldest surviving wooden church in the country, built in the late Middle Ages in the Gothic style. It is one of eight wooden churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area inscribed by UNESCO in 2008, alongside Greek Catholic, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches that together tell the story of the many faiths and peoples of this borderland.
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about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach Hervartov. Next is Bodruzal.
Bodružal is a tiny Rusyn village in the far northeast of Slovakia, close to the Polish border, with a few dozen houses scattered along a valley among the forested hills of the Low Beskids. What brings people here is its wooden church of St Nicholas, built in 1658, a three-domed Greek Catholic church with shingled walls and onion-shaped towers stepping up from east to west. It is one of the eight churches in the UNESCO listing of the wooden churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian mountain area, and it is a perfect example of the Lemko style: compact, harmonious and rooted in its landscape. Inside, the iconostasis glows with painted saints.
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Bodruzal, about halfway. Next is back through Hervartov.
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Read the complete Hervartov write-up.
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back through Hervartov sits at 172 km, about halfway. Next is back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less write-up.
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back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 240 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Church of St Philip and St James the Apost closes the day.
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 → Hervartov is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hervartov → Bodruzal is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bodružal → back through Hervartov is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hervartov → back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 39 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.