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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227 km from Bijela to Bijela, about 4 h 53 of riding. On the way it passes Dolovi in the village of Umoljani, Gvozno and back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Greek hillock, Grčka glavica, is a misleading name: the medieval tombstones that crown it have nothing to do with Greece. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, folk tradition often credited the stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones of the region, to Greeks, giants or other mysterious ancestors, and the names have stuck. The necropolis near the village of Biskup, in the hills south of Konjic, is a group of these stones, some decorated with reliefs of crosses, rosettes, hunting scenes or figures, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of stećci medieval tombstone graveyards, listed in 2016.
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Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is where the day begins. Next is Dolovi in the village of Umoljani.
Umoljani clings to the edge of the Bjelašnica massif above the Rakitnica canyon, an hour or so southwest of Sarajevo by road, and it is one of those mountain villages that feel a world away from the cities below. Stone houses with steep roofs, a small mosque and a scattering of shepherds' huts sit on a high green plateau, and nearby, at a spot known as Dolovi, a group of medieval tombstones called stećci lies in the grass. These carved limestone monuments, made between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, are found across Bosnia and neighbouring countries and were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016. Their reliefs of hunters, dancers, spirals and crescent moons are a fascinating window onto a culture that left few written records.
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Dolovi in the village of Umoljani comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gvozno.
Out on the high karst plateau around Kalinovik, south of Sarajevo, the land opens into wide pastures and rocky hills at well over a thousand metres, ringed by the mountains of Treskavica, Lelija and Zelengora. Here and there, half-hidden in the grass, lie stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this corner of the Balkans. The necropolis at Gvozno is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, which spans Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Gvozno. Next is back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolovi in the village of Umoljani write-up.
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back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani, late in the day. Next is Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup. That is the ride.
Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolovi in the village of Umoljani → Gvozno is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolovi in the village of Umoljani → Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.