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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An 89 km round trip from Binarowa - roughly 2 h 01 in the saddle. The stops in between: Church of St Philip and St James the Apost, Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva and back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost. 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.
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 Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
The wooden church in Sękowa is small, dark and quietly astonishing. It stands on a slope in the Beskid Niski, the low and thickly wooded mountains of south-eastern Poland, and dates from the early sixteenth century, with a steep shingled roof, a tower with a pointed top and a gallery running around the walls. The timber has gone almost black with age, and inside the walls and ceiling are painted with colourful flowers, figures and scenes of faith from the seventeenth century. It is one of the wooden churches of southern Małopolska listed by UNESCO in 2003, and unlike a museum piece, it is still used for services.
Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
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Church of St Philip and St James the Apost comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva. Next is back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost, 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 → Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → Church of the Archangel Michael is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.