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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347 km from Frydman to Frydman, about 5 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi and back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 64 km this is Polish Tatra Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
From the outside, the church in Dębno Podhalańskie looks like a sturdy wooden barn with a steep shingled roof and a squat tower, the kind of building you might ride past without a second glance. Step inside and the walls explode with colour: every surface covered in stencilled and painted patterns, animals, plants and geometric figures, dating back to around 1500, one of the best-preserved medieval painted interiors in Poland. The church, built of larch in the late fifteenth century, is part of the UNESCO listing of Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic timber churches that show the skill of local carpenters who built without nails.
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 Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the.
The Church of All Saints in Tvrdošín, at the edge of the town in the Orava valley, is a wooden Gothic church from the fifteenth century, built of larch and fir, with a shingled roof, a tower with a distinctive spire and a painted interior, and it is one of the oldest of the wooden churches listed as a World Heritage Site in Slovakia. Its Renaissance and Baroque decorations, including a carved altar and paintings, were added over the centuries.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the write-up.
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Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
In 1600, Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, a Polish nobleman, began to build a chapel on a hill south-west of Kraków, modelled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Over the following decades, he and his descendants added dozens of chapels and churches spread over the hills, laid out to recreate the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, with the landscape itself standing in for Jerusalem. The result, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999.
Read the complete Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi write-up.
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about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. Next is back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Church of the Archangel Michael. That is the ride.
Church of the Archangel Michael → Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → Church of the Archangel Michael is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.