CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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344 km from Bystrytsya to Bystrytsya, about 8 h 56 of riding. On the way it passes Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, Maramarosh, Wooden Churches of Maramureş and back through Maramarosh. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Ukraine into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 31 km this is Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Gorgany are the wildest part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a range of sandstone peaks rising above dense forests in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. What makes them unusual are the gorgany themselves, the fields of loose stone blocks that cover the upper slopes and summits, formed by frost shattering the rock. Walking across them is slow and tiring, and the forests below, of spruce, beech and Swiss stone pine, are among the most pristine in Ukraine, with brown bears, wolves, lynx and red deer. The Gorgany nature reserve protects a part of this landscape.
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Gorgany is where the day begins. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension comes up 37 km in. Next is Maramarosh.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
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75 km in you reach Maramarosh. Next is Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
Maramureș is a region in the far north of Romania, along the Ukrainian border, where traditions have survived more strongly than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its villages are known for their carved wooden gates, their haystacks and their wooden churches, eight of which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bârsana, in the valley of the Iza river, has one of them, a church built in the eighteenth century, with a tall slender spire and a steep shingled roof.
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Wooden Churches of Maramureş, about halfway. Next is back through Maramarosh.
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back through Maramarosh sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
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back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension comes up 187 km in. Next is Gorgany.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gorgany write-up.
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Gorgany closes the day.
Gorgany → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Maramarosh is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Maramureş → back through Maramarosh is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maramarosh → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Gorgany is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.