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 Trogir it runs 390 km to Trogir; allow about 12 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Stari Grad Plain, Bijača and back through Stari Grad Plain. It crosses from Croatia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Trogir is an island, though you barely notice it. The old town sits on a tiny islet between the mainland and the larger island of Čiovo, linked to both by short bridges, and inside its walls is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Adriatic, a UNESCO site of narrow lanes, stone palaces and churches, crammed into an area you can walk across in five minutes.
Read the complete Historic City of Trogir write-up.
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Historic City of Trogir is where the day begins. Next is Stari Grad Plain.
Hvar's best farmland is not on a hillside but on a flat, fertile plain just inland from the town of Stari Grad, and it has been laid out in the same pattern for about twenty-four centuries. Greek settlers from Paros founded a colony called Pharos here in the fourth century BC, and they divided the plain into neat rectangular plots, marked out by dry-stone walls. The walls are still there, the plots still follow the old grid, and the people who farm them today are growing grapes and olives much as their predecessors did. UNESCO listed the plain as a World Heritage site in 2008, and for once the listing is tied to something you can actually walk across.
Read the complete Stari Grad Plain write-up.
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Stari Grad Plain comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bijača.
In western Herzegovina, near the town of Ljubuški and close to the Croatian border, the land is a mix of karst hills, fertile valleys and vineyards, baked by the sun and scented with sage and fig. Near the village of Bijača, the necropolis of stećci, the medieval tombstones that are unique to this region, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, spread across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. The tombstones, carved with crosses, spirals, figures and inscriptions, stand among the grass and stones, a silent reminder of the people who lived here centuries ago.
Read the complete Bijača write-up.
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about 194 km into the recorded legs you reach Bijača. Next is back through Stari Grad Plain.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stari Grad Plain write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stari Grad Plain, late in the day. Next is Historic City of Trogir.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic City of Trogir write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic City of Trogir. That is the ride.
Historic City of Trogir → Stari Grad Plain is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stari Grad Plain → Bijača is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bijača → back through Stari Grad Plain is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stari Grad Plain → Historic City of Trogir is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.