CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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552 km from Ieud to Ieud, about 13 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Maramarosh, Svydovets, Gorgany and Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Ukraine - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ieud is a long village strung along a side valley of the Iza river in Maramureș, in Romania's far north, and it has not one but two wooden churches. The one on the hill, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, is one of the eight Wooden Churches of Maramureș listed by UNESCO, and it is one of the oldest, with a tall, slender bell tower and a double roof of wooden shingles that reaches almost to the ground. Inside, the walls are covered with eighteenth-century paintings on wood and cloth, with scenes from the Last Judgement in which the damned are dressed in the clothes of the local enemies of the time. The church is also known for the Ieud Codex, a manuscript found here, one of the oldest texts written in the Romanian language.
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is where the day begins. Next is Maramarosh.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
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Maramarosh comes up 49 km in. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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98 km in you reach Svydovets. Next is Gorgany.
The Gorgany are the wildest part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a range of sandstone peaks rising above dense forests in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. What makes them unusual are the gorgany themselves, the fields of loose stone blocks that cover the upper slopes and summits, formed by frost shattering the rock. Walking across them is slow and tiring, and the forests below, of spruce, beech and Swiss stone pine, are among the most pristine in Ukraine, with brown bears, wolves, lynx and red deer. The Gorgany nature reserve protects a part of this landscape.
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Gorgany, about halfway. Next is Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of.
The wooden church of Nyzhniy Verbizh stands in the foothills of the Carpathians, in the Pokuttya region of western Ukraine, close to the Prut river and the old town of Kolomyia. It is one of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region listed by UNESCO in 2013, a group of sixteen churches in Ukraine and Poland that show how the Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities of the mountains developed a tradition of building in timber that mixed Byzantine plans with local carpentry. Like others in the group, this one has a cross-shaped plan with tiered roofs and a small tower, and is raised from squared logs with shingles on the roofs, in a form that dates from the early 1800s.
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Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gorgany.
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back through Gorgany comes up 244 km in. Next is back through Svydovets.
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293 km in you reach back through Svydovets. Next is back through Maramarosh.
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back through Maramarosh, late in the day. Next is Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.
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The route ends here after 552 km.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin → Maramarosh is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → Svydovets is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → Gorgany is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of → back through Gorgany is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Gorgany → back through Svydovets is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Svydovets → back through Maramarosh is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maramarosh → Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.