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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465 km from Poreč to Poreč, about 8 h 09 of riding. It goes by way of Škocjan Caves, Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, Roman Walls in Mirje and back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. It crosses from Croatia into Slovenia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 93 km this is Croatia Istrian Hill Town Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Poreč sits on a little limestone peninsula on the western coast of Istria, and the old town still follows the grid the Romans laid down, with the Decumanus running straight down the middle. The Euphrasian Basilica is tucked a few lanes from the main street, behind a quiet atrium, and it is easy to walk past if you are looking for something grand from the outside. Inside is the reason it earned its UNESCO listing: a sixth-century church, built under Bishop Euphrasius, that kept its Byzantine mosaics through a millennium and a half of earthquakes, Venetian rule and tourism.
Read the complete Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili write-up.
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Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili is where the day begins. 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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Škocjan Caves comes up about 93 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. Next is Roman Walls in Mirje.
In the middle of Ljubljana, on Mirje street, a long stretch of reconstructed wall recalls the Roman town of Emona. The Romans founded Emona in the early first century AD, on a grid of streets beside the Ljubljanica river, as a frontier outpost and trading town on the road between Italy and the Danube. It had walls, gates, forums, baths and a population of several thousand. Later, the town was sacked by Huns and other invaders, and its stones were reused for centuries, so that very little survived above ground.
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Roman Walls in Mirje, about halfway. Next is back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
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Read the complete Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the write-up.
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back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the sits at 244 km, about halfway. Next is back through Škocjan Caves.
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Read the complete Škocjan Caves write-up.
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back through Škocjan Caves comes up about 372 km into the recorded legs. Next is Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili closes the day.
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili → Škocjan Caves is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → Roman Walls in Mirje is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman Walls in Mirje → back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 65 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 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Škocjan Caves → Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.