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 417 km round trip from Žabljak - roughly 9 h 19 in the saddle. It goes by way of Grebnice, Kalufi in Krekovi and back through Grebnice. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Montenegro into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
High in the mountains of northern Montenegro, in meadows below the peaks of Durmitor, stand some of the strangest gravestones in Europe. Grcko groblje, the Greek cemetery, is a field of stecci, huge carved limestone blocks that medieval communities across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia raised over their dead between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. Some are shaped like coffins, some like gabled roofs, some are slabs. They carry carvings of crescents and suns, spirals, vines, hunting scenes, warriors on horseback and rows of people dancing hand in hand in the old kolo. This site is one of several in the region that were listed together by UNESCO in 2016.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
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Grčko groblje is where the day begins. Next is Grebnice.
Grebnice, a name that simply means something like grave-stones, is a field of stećci near Bileća in eastern Herzegovina. These are the massive carved tombstones of medieval Bosnia and its neighbours, cut from local limestone between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, shaped like chests, slabs or little houses with gabled roofs, and sometimes covered with spirals, rosettes, swords, shields and dancing figures. UNESCO listed a selection of the most important sites together in 2016, and the necropolis here is one of the eastern Herzegovinian groups. Standing among them on a still afternoon, with the grass grown up around the stones, is a strangely moving experience.
Read the complete Grebnice write-up.
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Grebnice comes up about 127 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
The Nevesinjsko polje is a broad, flat-floored basin high in the karst of eastern Herzegovina, ringed by bare limestone hills, and at Krekovi, near its edge, a group of stećci known as Kalufi stands in the grass. These medieval tombstones, carved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, belong to the transnational World Heritage Site inscribed in 2016. At Krekovi you find slabs, chests and gabled forms, some decorated with crosses, rosettes and borders, set in rows facing roughly east to west in the old tradition.
Read the complete Kalufi in Krekovi write-up.
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about 208 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is back through Grebnice.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grebnice write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Grebnice, late in the day. Next is Grčko groblje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Grčko groblje. That is the ride.
Grčko groblje → Grebnice is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grebnice → Kalufi in Krekovi is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalufi in Krekovi → back through Grebnice is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Grebnice → Grčko groblje is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.