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 290 km round trip from Trogir - roughly 4 h 20 in the saddle. On the way it passes The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik, Defensive System of Zadar and back through The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 51 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik.
Croatian cathedrals are usually built of brick and timber, so the first odd thing about St James in Šibenik is that it is made entirely of stone, vaulted and roofed in carefully shaped slabs that lock together without a scrap of wood or mortar in the structure. It took more than a century to finish, from the 1430s into the 1530s, and the work passed through the hands of Juraj Dalmatinac and later Niccolò Fiorentino, which is why Gothic and Renaissance ideas sit in the same building. UNESCO added it to the World Heritage list in 2000.
Read the complete The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik write-up.
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The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Defensive System of Zadar.
Zadar spent much of its life on the front line, and its walls prove it. Once the chief city of Venetian Dalmatia, it stood on the border between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Venetians turned it into one of the strongest fortress towns in the Adriatic. The ramparts, bastions and gates that survive are part of the Venetian Works of Defence between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a group of sites across Italy, Croatia and Montenegro that UNESCO inscribed in 2017.
Read the complete Defensive System of Zadar write-up.
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about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Defensive System of Zadar. Next is back through The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik, 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 → The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik → Defensive System of Zadar is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Defensive System of Zadar → back through The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik → Historic City of Trogir is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.