CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 330 km round trip from Drohobych - roughly 7 h 21 in the saddle. The stops in between: Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless, Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy and back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Ukraine into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Bruno Schulz was born in Drohobych in 1892, spent most of his life here and was shot in its streets by a German officer in 1942. The writer and painter, whose strange, dreamlike stories turned this small Galician town into a place of myth, drew on the old market square, the narrow lanes and the attic rooms of a Jewish merchant family, and the town today is part of his legacy. Drohobych, with a population of nearly eighty thousand, grew rich on salt and oil, and the oil wells of nearby Boryslav gave the region the nickname of Galicia's Texas in the late nineteenth century. Ivan Franko, the great Ukrainian writer, went to school here.
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Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t is where the day begins. Next is Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless.
Matkiv is a small village in the upper valley of the Stryi river, in the Turka district of the Lviv region, high in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Its wooden church, the tserkva of the Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in the first half of the nineteenth century, and it is a fine example of the Boyko tradition, named after the highland people who have lived in these mountains for centuries. The church has three log frames topped by tiered pyramidal roofs, each level slightly smaller than the one below, and the whole building is covered in wooden shingles that have weathered to a silver grey. It is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless comes up 69 km in. Next is Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy.
At the very eastern tip of Slovakia, where the borders of Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine meet on the summit of Kremenec, lies a forest that has been left to itself for longer than anyone remembers. Stužica, in the Poloniny National Park, is one of the most valuable fragments of primeval beech forest in Europe, with trees several hundred years old, fallen trunks rotting slowly on the ground, and an extraordinary richness of fungi, insects and birds. It is part of the UNESCO site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a transnational listing that started with forests in Slovakia and Ukraine.
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138 km in you reach Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy. Next is back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless.
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back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless, late in the day. Next is Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t write-up.
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Back at Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t. That is the ride.
Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t → Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless → Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stužica - Bukovské Vrchy → back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless → Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.