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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A 242 km round trip from Binarowa - roughly 5 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection, Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, Hervartov and back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less. 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.
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.
Read the complete Church of the Archangel Michael write-up.
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Church of the Archangel Michael is where the day begins. Next is Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
The Lemkos, a mountain people of the Carpathians, built their churches of wood, with onion domes and steep shingle roofs stepping up in tiers toward the west tower, and the one at Owczary, in the Low Beskids south of Gorlice, is one of the finest. Built in the mid seventeenth century as a Greek Catholic church, it was later enlarged and painted inside with a rich polychrome decoration. After the Second World War the Lemkos were deported from this region in Operation Vistula, and the church was taken over by the Roman Catholic parish, while the Greek Catholic community has also returned to use it. It is part of the World Heritage listing of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
Read the complete Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection write-up.
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Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less. 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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Hervartov, about halfway. Next is back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
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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 sits at 128 km, about halfway. Next is back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection write-up.
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back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection comes up about 217 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of the Archangel Michael.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Archangel Michael write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Church of the Archangel Michael closes the day.
Church of the Archangel Michael → Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 57 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 → 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 → back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → Church of the Archangel Michael is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.