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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296 km from Suceviţa to Suceviţa, about 6 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of, Codrul Secular Slătioara, Church of St George of Suceava and back through Codrul Secular Slătioara. 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.
Sucevița is the last and the largest of the great painted monasteries of Bucovina, and when you come down into its valley and see it for the first time, a squat fortress of white walls and towers with a church inside painted from eaves to plinth in deep greens, reds and blues, it stops you in your tracks. It was built in the 1580s and 1590s by the Movilă family, princes and churchmen of Moldavia, and its frescoes are among the best preserved of all the painted churches. UNESCO groups it with seven others as the churches of Moldavia.
Read the complete Churches of Moldavia write-up.
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Churches of Moldavia 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 43 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.
Read the complete Codrul Secular Slătioara write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul Secular Slătioara. Next is Church of St George of Suceava.
Suceava is the old capital of Moldavia, and the church of St George sits at its edge, a short ride from the ring of newer apartment blocks that now surround the medieval centre. It was built in the early sixteenth century under Bogdan III, son of Stephen the Great, and it belongs to the small family of Moldavian churches that UNESCO lists together. The family resemblance is easy to see once you have visited two or three: steep roofs, a short tower over the nave, buttresses, and walls that were once painted inside and out in blue, red and ochre.
Read the complete Church of St George of Suceava write-up.
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Church of St George of Suceava, about halfway. Next is back through Codrul Secular Slătioara.
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Read the complete Codrul Secular Slătioara write-up.
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back through Codrul Secular Slătioara sits at 183 km, about halfway. Next is back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of comes up about 252 km into the recorded legs. Next is Churches of Moldavia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Churches of Moldavia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Churches of Moldavia closes the day.
Churches of Moldavia → Church of the Assumption of the Virgin of is 43 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 → Church of St George of Suceava is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of St George of Suceava → back through Codrul Secular Slătioara is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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 → Churches of Moldavia is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.