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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A 629 km round trip from Palmanova - roughly 11 h 52 in the saddle. It goes by way of Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, Škocjan Caves, Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the and back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Italy into Slovenia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
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City Fortress of Palmanova is where the day begins. Next is Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
The water barriers of the Idrijca are among the strangest industrial monuments in Europe: massive stone and timber dams built across a narrow mountain river not to store water for drinking or power, but to float logs. Locals call them klavže, and the biggest have been nicknamed the Slovenian pyramids for their huge, carefully cut blocks. They lie in the deep, wooded gorge below the Vojsko plateau, a short ride from the town of Idrija.
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Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Škocjan Caves.
Underneath the sleepy stone villages of the Slovenian Karst, a river called the Reka plunges into the earth and carves one of the largest underground canyons known anywhere. The Škocjan Caves, a UNESCO site since 1986, are the reason the word karst became the scientific name for this kind of limestone landscape everywhere in the world. Inside, a narrow footbridge spans the Reka gorge far above the roaring water, the chamber walls disappear into darkness, and the scale is so huge that your mind struggles to accept it is all underground.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Škocjan Caves. Next is Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
Deep in a wooded gorge above Idrija, where the stream called Idrijska Bela tumbles over pale limestone, stands one of the strangest pieces of old engineering in Slovenia: a klavže, a water barrier built of massive dressed stone blocks across the narrow valley. Its job had nothing to do with power or flood control. Idrija's mercury mine, one of the two largest in the world for centuries, devoured timber for its shafts and smelters, and the forests close to town were soon exhausted. So the miners built these dams on mountain streams, let water build up behind them, piled cut logs in the bed below and then opened the gates. The released flood swept the timber all the way down to Idrija, where it was caught at a rake across the river.
Read the complete Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the write-up.
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Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, about halfway.
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Škocjan Caves sits at 208 km, about halfway. Next is back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
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back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the comes up about 383 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Škocjan Caves.
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about 460 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Škocjan Caves. Next is back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
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Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, late in the day. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
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The route ends here after 629 km.
City Fortress of Palmanova → Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → Škocjan Caves is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Škocjan Caves → Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → Škocjan Caves is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Škocjan Caves → back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → back through Škocjan Caves is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Škocjan Caves → back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → City Fortress of Palmanova is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.