CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Săliştea de Sus it runs 285 km to Săliştea de Sus; allow about 6 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Church of the Holy Parasceve, Church of the Holy Paraskeva, Church of the Holy Archangels and back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 28 km this is Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is where the day begins. Next is Church of the Holy Parasceve.
Maramureș is one of the few corners of Europe where wood is still the language of the sacred, and the church of Saint Parascheva at Poienile Izei is a good place to learn it. It stands on a small rise above the Izei valley, a dark timber church with a steep, double-tiered shingled roof and a slender spire, built in the early seventeenth century and moved to its present spot later. Inside, the walls and ceiling carry painted scenes from the eighteenth century, and the one that always gets quoted is a vivid Last Judgment in which sinners get remarkably specific punishments.
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Church of the Holy Parasceve comes up 28 km in. Next is Church of the Holy Paraskeva.
In 1780 a painter named Radu Munteanu covered the inside of the wooden church at Desești with scenes that still shock and delight: a Last Judgment in which sinners are marched off to a hell full of grinning devils, alongside saints, prophets and lively village figures. The church, dedicated to the Holy Paraskeva and built in 1770 from oak logs, rises above the village with a tall, slender tower and a steep double roof of shingles. It is one of the eight wooden churches of Maramureș inscribed by UNESCO in 1999, and its paintings are among the best preserved of them all.
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55 km in you reach Church of the Holy Paraskeva. Next is Church of the Holy Archangels.
Șurdești is a small village in the hills of Maramureș, in the north of Romania, and its wooden church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel is famous for its spire. Built in the eighteenth century from oak logs, the church has a steep double roof covered in shingles and a slender tower that rises far above the trees, among the tallest wooden church towers in the region. It is one of eight wooden churches of Maramureș listed by UNESCO in 1999, each a masterpiece of local carpentry, built by village craftsmen using traditional techniques.
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Church of the Holy Archangels, about halfway. Next is back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva.
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Read the complete Church of the Holy Paraskeva write-up.
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back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Church of the Holy Parasceve.
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Read the complete Church of the Holy Parasceve write-up.
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back through Church of the Holy Parasceve comes up 138 km in. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci closes the day.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Church of the Holy Parasceve is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Parasceve → Church of the Holy Paraskeva is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Paraskeva → Church of the Holy Archangels is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Archangels → back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva → back through Church of the Holy Parasceve is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Holy Parasceve → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.