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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387 km from Lviv to Lviv, about 6 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Roztochya, Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol and Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles. It crosses from Ukraine into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch is where the day begins. Next is Roztochya.
Roztochia is a low, wooded ridge that runs like a spine from southeastern Poland down to the outskirts of Lviv, and on its Ukrainian end, between Ivano-Frankove and Novoyavorivsk, lies the Roztochia nature reserve. Its old beech woods were added in 2017 to the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a chain of forests that tells the story of how beech recolonised the continent after the Ice Age. The ridge is also a watershed: rain that falls on one side ends up in the Baltic by way of the Vistula, and on the other in the Black Sea by way of the Dniester. Standing on a hilltop and knowing that is oddly satisfying.
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Roztochya comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
Zhovkva was designed as an ideal Renaissance town. In the late sixteenth century, Stanisław Żółkiewski, a Polish nobleman and military commander, founded it north of Lviv with a castle, a market square, churches and fortifications laid out according to the principles of the time. Later, the town was a favourite residence of King Jan III Sobieski, who defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683. The Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, a wooden church built in 1720, stands on the edge of the town, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. 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, about halfway. 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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Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles sits at 188 km, about halfway. Next is back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
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back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol comes up about 261 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
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about 301 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. Next is back through Roztochya.
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back through Roztochya, late in the day. Next is Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch, 47 km on.
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The route ends here after 387 km.
Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch → Roztochya is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roztochya → Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → back through Roztochya is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roztochya → Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.