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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274 km from Lviv to Lviv, about 4 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol, Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles and back through Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol. It crosses from Ukraine into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
High on a hill above the old town of Lviv sits a cathedral that looks as if the baroque had a sense of humour. St George's, the main church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic community, was built in the middle of the eighteenth century, in a style that mixes baroque and the lighter rococo, with a pale stone facade full of sculpted saints, columns, and a swirl of decoration across the pediment. The figures were carved by Johann Georg Pinsel, a sculptor whose twisting, ecstatic figures are among the most original in central Europe. The ensemble includes a bell tower, a chapter house and a palace for the metropolitan, all set around a courtyard with a long view down to the city.
Read the complete Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch write-up.
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Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch is where the day begins. Next is Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
In the village of Potelych, in western Ukraine near the Polish border, a wooden church has stood since the early sixteenth century. The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine, built of logs with a tall roof covered in shingles, and its interior holds wall paintings and an iconostasis from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
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Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles.
Out on the flat, open country east of the San river, close to the Ukrainian border, stands a wooden church that has been watching the fields for more than four hundred years. The Church of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Chotyniec dates from the early seventeenth century and belongs to the eastern tradition of Christian building in this borderland, where Ruthenian communities worshipped in the Greek rite. It is one of the churches listed together as the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region, and it has a tall, three-part design, with a nave, a smaller chancel and a bell tower, each topped by a wooden cupola.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles. Next is back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
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Read the complete Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol write-up.
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back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol, late in the day. Next is Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch, 68 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch. That is the ride.
Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch → Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.