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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123 km from Arbore to Arbore, about 2 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of, Codrul Secular Slătioara and back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap is where the day begins. Next is Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of.
The painted monasteries of Bukovina are among the most extraordinary buildings in Europe, and the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin at Humor, just outside Gura Humorului in north-eastern Romania, is one of the finest. Built in 1530 and painted inside and out a few years later, it belongs to the group of churches that were inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1993. The outer walls are covered with frescoes in rich shades of red and brown, telling biblical stories and lives of saints to people who could not read.
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Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Codrul Secular Slătioara.
Slătioara is old-growth forest of the kind that Europe has mostly lost. The reserve, tucked into the slopes of the Rarău and Giumalău ranges above the Moldova valley, protects beech, fir and spruce that have never been seriously logged, and it is part of the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians that UNESCO recognised. Walk under the canopy and you notice the scale first: trunks as thick as a doorway, fallen giants furred with moss, and a dim green light even at noon.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul Secular Slătioara. Next is back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of.
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Read the complete Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of write-up.
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back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of, late in the day. Next is Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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.
Back at Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap. That is the ride.
Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap → Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of → Codrul Secular Slătioara is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul Secular Slătioara → back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of → Church of the Beheading of St John the Bap is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.