CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 270 km round trip from Moldoviţa - roughly 6 h 16 in the saddle. The stops in between: Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of, Churches of Moldavia, Church of St George of the former Voronet and back through Churches of Moldavia. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Moldovița is the monastery that makes people go quiet in the courtyard. It sits in a green pocket of the Bukovina hills, ringed by a stout defensive wall with corner towers, and inside it the Church of the Annunciation is painted from the ground to the eaves with saints, prophets and battle scenes in blues, reds and ochres that have survived some five centuries of Carpathian weather. It was founded in the time of Petru Rareș, in the 1530s, and it belongs to the famous group of painted churches of northern Moldavia that UNESCO lists together.
Read the complete Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster write-up.
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Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Churches of Moldavia.
Sucevița is the last and the largest of the great painted monasteries of Bucovina, and when you come down into its valley and see it for the first time, a squat fortress of white walls and towers with a church inside painted from eaves to plinth in deep greens, reds and blues, it stops you in your tracks. It was built in the 1580s and 1590s by the Movilă family, princes and churchmen of Moldavia, and its frescoes are among the best preserved of all the painted churches. UNESCO groups it with seven others as the churches of Moldavia.
Read the complete Churches of Moldavia write-up.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Churches of Moldavia. Next is Church of St George of the former Voronet.
Voroneț is known as the Sistine Chapel of the East, and it earned the name with a colour. The little church of St George, built in 1488 by Stephen the Great, prince of Moldavia, is covered inside and out with frescoes, and the outside, especially, glows with a deep blue that has never been exactly replicated and is now called Voroneț blue. The west wall carries a vast Last Judgment, added in 1547, in which rivers of fire pull the damned toward the pit while saints, angels and a procession of animals look on. Legend says that Stephen built the church in three months, three weeks and three days after a victory over the Ottomans.
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Church of St George of the former Voronet, about halfway. Next is back through Churches of Moldavia.
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Read the complete Churches of Moldavia write-up.
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back through Churches of Moldavia sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of comes up about 229 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster closes the day.
Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster → Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of → Churches of Moldavia is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Churches of Moldavia → Church of St George of the former Voronet is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of St George of the former Voronet → back through Churches of Moldavia is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Churches of Moldavia → back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of → Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.