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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From Bardejov it runs 330 km to Bardejov; allow about 7 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i and Church of the Archangel Michael. It crosses from Slovakia into Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Hervartov is a small village in the hills of north-eastern Slovakia, a few kilometres from Bardejov, and its wooden church of Saint Francis of Assisi is considered the oldest surviving wooden church in the country, built in the late Middle Ages in the Gothic style. It is one of eight wooden churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area inscribed by UNESCO in 2008, alongside Greek Catholic, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches that together tell the story of the many faiths and peoples of this borderland.
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Hervartov is where the day begins. Next is Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
The little wooden church at Kwiatoń is often called the most beautiful of its kind in Poland, and when you see it you understand why. Built in the seventeenth century by the Lemko community, it has three parts, each topped by a tower with a bulbous cupola, rising in height from the sanctuary at the east to the bell tower at the west, all clad in wooden shingles and set in a green churchyard among old trees. Inside, painted walls and an iconostasis of icons glow in the dim light. It is one of the wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
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Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska.
The church of St Michael the Archangel in Binarowa looks, from the outside, like a simple barn with a tower: dark shingled walls, a steep roof and a small onion-topped belfry. Step inside and the walls and ceiling explode with colour, covered with painted decoration of saints, scenes from the Bible and floral patterns, some of them centuries old. Built around 1500 of larch and fir, without nails in the traditional joinery, it is one of the Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic churches inscribed as a World Heritage site. The local story is that it was built from timber left over from another church, but whatever its origins, the result is one of the finest wooden interiors in Poland.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska. Next is Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i.
In a narrow valley in the Low Beskids, close to the Slovak border in south-eastern Poland, stands the wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Kwiatoń, often called the most beautiful of the Lemko churches. Built in the seventeenth century by the Lemkos, an East Slavic highland people who lived in these hills for centuries, it is one of the sixteen wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine that UNESCO listed in 2013. Its silhouette is unmistakable: three towers rising in steps toward the west, each topped with onion-shaped domes and crosses, the walls covered in wooden shingles that have weathered to silver-grey.
Read the complete Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i write-up.
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Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i, about halfway. Next is Church of the Archangel Michael.
There is a church in the Polish foothills that has a ceiling like a field of flowers. The Church of the Archangel Michael at Binarowa, near Gorlice in Lesser Poland, was built around the year 1500 from larch and fir logs, in the Gothic style, with a steep shingled roof and a tower covered in wooden scales. From the outside it is a modest, dark country church. Inside it opens into an explosion of painted decoration, with vines, flowers and ornaments on the ceiling, scenes from the Bible and the saints on the walls, and a rich Baroque altar. The paintings date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The church was listed by UNESCO in 2013 as one of the wooden churches of the Carpathian region, and it is one of the finest in Poland.
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Church of the Archangel Michael sits at 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i.
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back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i comes up about 205 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska.
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about 244 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska. Next is back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
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Read the complete Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
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back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, late in the day. Next is Hervartov.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hervartov write-up.
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The route ends here after 330 km.
Hervartov → Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska → Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i → Church of the Archangel Michael is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Archangel Michael → back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i → back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska → back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Hervartov is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.