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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117 km from Moldoviţa to Moldoviţa, about 2 h 46 of riding. The stops in between: Churches of Moldavia, Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap 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 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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Churches of Moldavia comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap.
Arbore is a village in Bucovina, in the north of Romania, and its church is one of the famous painted churches of Moldavia. It was built in 1503 by Luca Arbore, a nobleman at the court of Stephen the Great, and dedicated to the Beheading of St John the Baptist. Like the other painted churches of the region, its exterior walls are covered with frescoes, applied in the sixteenth century to teach the Bible to ordinary people who could not read. Arbore's frescoes, painted around 1541, are known for their green tones, and while weather has faded the walls facing the prevailing wind, the west facade still shows scenes of the Last Judgement, saints and the Book of Genesis in remarkable detail. UNESCO lists it among the eight churches of northern Moldavia.
Read the complete Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap. Next is back through Churches of Moldavia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Churches of Moldavia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Churches of Moldavia, late in the day. 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.
Back at Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster. That is the ride.
Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster → Churches of Moldavia is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Churches of Moldavia → Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap → back through Churches of Moldavia is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Churches of Moldavia → Church of the Annunciation of the Monaster is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.