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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451 km from Binarowa to Binarowa, about 8 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, Hervartov, Levoča and Dobšinská Ice Cave. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
There is a church in the Polish foothills that has a ceiling like a field of flowers. The Church of the Archangel Michael at Binarowa, near Gorlice in Lesser Poland, was built around the year 1500 from larch and fir logs, in the Gothic style, with a steep shingled roof and a tower covered in wooden scales. From the outside it is a modest, dark country church. Inside it opens into an explosion of painted decoration, with vines, flowers and ornaments on the ceiling, scenes from the Bible and the saints on the walls, and a rich Baroque altar. The paintings date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The church was listed by UNESCO in 2013 as one of the wooden churches of the Carpathian region, and it is one of the finest in Poland.
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Church of the Archangel Michael is where the day begins. Next is Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
The little wooden church at Kwiatoń is often called the most beautiful of its kind in Poland, and when you see it you understand why. Built in the seventeenth century by the Lemko community, it has three parts, each topped by a tower with a bulbous cupola, rising in height from the sanctuary at the east to the bell tower at the west, all clad in wooden shingles and set in a green churchyard among old trees. Inside, painted walls and an iconostasis of icons glow in the dim light. It is one of the wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
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Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva comes up about 43 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 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Hervartov. Next is Levoča.
Spread across a ridge in eastern Slovakia, with the jagged peaks of the High Tatras rising on the northern horizon, the Spiš region holds one of Europe's great clusters of medieval monuments. The town of Levoča, the old regional capital, was a wealthy royal free town, and its walls, burgher houses and Renaissance town hall still surround a long central square. Inside the church of St James stands Master Paul of Levoča's carved Gothic altarpiece, finished in the early sixteenth century and the tallest of its kind in the world, an astonishing tower of limewood saints and filigree.
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Levoča, about halfway. Next is Dobšinská Ice Cave.
Step out of a warm summer day into the Dobšinská Ice Cave and the temperature drops to just below freezing within a few metres. The cave, on the northern edge of the Slovak Paradise in eastern Slovakia, holds a vast mass of ice, tens of thousands of cubic metres, with frozen floors, walls and columns that have built up over thousands of years. It was explored in 1870 by Eugen Ruffinyi, opened to visitors soon after, and became one of the first caves in Europe to be lit by electricity. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, shared with Hungary.
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Dobšinská Ice Cave sits at 176 km, about halfway. Next is back through Levoča.
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back through Levoča comes up about 284 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hervartov.
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about 364 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hervartov. Next is back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, late in the day. Next is Church of the Archangel Michael.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Archangel Michael write-up.
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The route ends here after 451 km.
Church of the Archangel Michael → Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Hervartov is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hervartov → Levoča is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Levoča → Dobšinská Ice Cave is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobšinská Ice Cave → back through Levoča is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Levoča → back through Hervartov is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hervartov → back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Church of the Archangel Michael is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.