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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295 km from Gorlice to Gorlice, about 5 h 45 of riding. On the way it passes Ladomirová, Udava and back through Ladomirová. 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 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.
Read the complete Ladomirová write-up.
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Ladomirová comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Udava.
Out where Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine meet, the eastern Carpathians fold into long, rounded ridges covered in beech forest so continuous that from a high point it looks like a green sea. Udava is one of the Slovak pieces of the UNESCO Primeval Beech Forests listing, protected within Poloniny National Park, the most easterly and least populated corner of the country. Here the forest has been left to its own rhythms for a very long time: giant trees, fallen trunks covered in fungi and moss, a dense understory of young growth wherever light breaks through. Wolves, lynx, brown bears and even European bison roam the area, and the dawn chorus in May is unforgettable.
Read the complete Udava write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Udava. Next is back through Ladomirová.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ladomirová write-up.
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back through Ladomirová, late in the day. 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.
Back at Church of St Philip and St James the Apost. That is the ride.
Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → Ladomirová is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ladomirová → Udava is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Udava → back through Ladomirová is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ladomirová → Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.