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 375 km round trip from Idrija - roughly 6 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints, Snežnik-Ždrocle and back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Idrija is a small town in a narrow valley in western Slovenia, and for five hundred years it was one of the richest places in Europe, because under it lay mercury. The ore was found in 1490, and the mine became the second biggest in the world, after Almaden in Spain, and employed generations of miners. The two together were listed as a World Heritage site in 2012. Mercury was vital for extracting gold and silver, and for mirrors, medicines and later industry, and the Habsburg emperors treasured Idrija. The miners' wives and daughters made lace to earn money, and Idrija lace is still made today, taught in a school, and a local pride.
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Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa is where the day begins. Next is Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints.
It is the city's central burial ground, laid out on the eastern edge of town, and in the late 1930s the architect Joze Plecnik added a series of chapels, arcades and entrance structures that turn it into a quiet landscape of white walls, columns and calm courtyards. He called it the Garden of All Saints, and the name fits. Plecnik was Slovenia's great architect of the twentieth century, a man who also shaped the bridges, markets and riverbanks of Ljubljana, and his works in the city were added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
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Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Snežnik-Ždrocle.
Ždrocle is a fragment of primeval beech forest on the slopes of Snežnik, the big karst mountain in the far south of Slovenia, close to the Croatian border, and it is one of the components of the great European UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests. That listing stretches from the Carpathians to Spain, but here you are in its Dinaric heart, where beech, fir and maple grow on a chaotic surface of limestone sinkholes, sharp ridges and hollows full of moss. Snežnik itself rises to just under eighteen hundred metres and holds its snow late, which is how it got its name.
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about 179 km into the recorded legs you reach Snežnik-Ždrocle. Next is back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints, late in the day. Next is Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa. That is the ride.
Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa → Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints → Snežnik-Ždrocle is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Snežnik-Ždrocle → back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints → Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.