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 140 km round trip from Bardejov - roughly 3 h 09 in the saddle. On the way it passes Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i and back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less. It crosses from Slovakia into Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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 Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Hidden among the hills of the Beskid Sądecki, close to the Slovak border in southern Poland, the little wooden church at Powroźnik is one of the oldest of its kind still standing in the country. Its oldest parts date from around 1600, and it belongs to the group of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. A tserkva is an Eastern-rite church, and this one was built by the Lemkos, the Rusyn highlanders who farmed these valleys for centuries until most were forcibly resettled after the Second World War. Today it serves as a Catholic church, but the shape tells its origin story at once: a tower with a bulging onion-like cap, stepped shingle roofs and dark timber walls weathered almost black.
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Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i. Next is back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less write-up.
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back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, late in the day. Next is Hervartov.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hervartov write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hervartov. That is the ride.
Hervartov → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i → back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Hervartov is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.