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 251 km round trip from Lviv - roughly 4 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, Roztochya, Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol and back through Roztochya. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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.
Read the complete Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity write-up.
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Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Roztochya. 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 back through Roztochya.
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Read the complete Roztochya write-up.
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back through Roztochya sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity write-up.
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back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity comes up about 220 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch, 36 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.
Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch closes the day.
Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch → Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → Roztochya is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roztochya → Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → back through Roztochya is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roztochya → back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.