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 305 km round trip from Telč - roughly 5 h 30 in the saddle. On the way it passes Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at, Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer and back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Ride into the main square of Telč for the first time and you may laugh out loud, because it looks too perfect to be real. A long, tapering square is lined on both sides by Renaissance and Baroque houses, each with a different gable, painted in soft pastels, cream, pink, green and yellow, with arcades running along the ground floor. After a fire in the sixteenth century, the town was rebuilt under its lord, Zachariáš of Hradec, who had travelled in Italy and brought back a taste for Renaissance style. His château, at the end of the square, has richly decorated halls and a garden. The historic centre was listed by UNESCO in 1992.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Telč write-up.
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Historic Centre of Telč is where the day begins. Next is Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at.
On a low wooded rise called Zelená hora, Green Mountain, just outside Žďár nad Sázavou, stands one of the strangest and most beautiful churches in Central Europe. The architect was Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel, a Prague builder of Italian descent who loved to mix Gothic forms with Baroque drama, and here he built a pilgrimage church to St John of Nepomuk in the 1720s, shortly before the saint was even canonised. Everything in it plays on the number five: a star-shaped ground plan, five gates, five altars, five-pointed geometry repeated in the cloister around it. The reason is the legend that five stars appeared over the Vltava when John's body was thrown into the river in Prague, and the saint's tongue, said to have been found uncorrupted, is the other motif you will spot once you know to look for it. UNESCO listed it in 1994.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at write-up.
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Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer.
Kladruby nad Labem is a horse village in the flat country of the Elbe valley in eastern Bohemia, and its stud farm is among the oldest in the world. It was founded in the sixteenth century to breed carriage horses for the Habsburg court, and the Kladruber, a large, elegant horse that is usually white or black, is still bred here. The landscape, with its stables, riding grounds, pastures, avenues of trees and farm buildings laid out as a single working system, was added to the UNESCO list in 2019 as a cultural landscape.
Read the complete Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer write-up.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer. Next is back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at, late in the day. Next is Historic Centre of Telč.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Telč write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic Centre of Telč. That is the ride.
Historic Centre of Telč → Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at → Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer → back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at → Historic Centre of Telč is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.