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 Banská Štiavnica it runs 199 km to Banská Štiavnica; allow about 3 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Hronsek, Vlkolínec and back through Hronsek. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Banská Štiavnica is a town built into a volcano. A great crater, the caldera of an extinct volcano, surrounds the place, and the streets climb steeply up its inner slopes, so that the whole centre is a tumble of pastel houses, churches and castles on a hillside. Silver and gold were mined here from the Middle Ages, and in the eighteenth century the town was one of the richest in the Habsburg Empire. In 1762 the mining academy was founded, one of the first technical colleges in the world, and its graduates carried mining knowledge to many countries. UNESCO listed the town in 1993, along with its technical monuments.
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Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the is where the day begins. Next is Hronsek.
The wooden church at Hronsek looks at first like a large barn with a steep shingle roof, standing among old lime trees in a village in the Hron valley. It is in fact one of the rarest kinds of building in Central Europe: an articular church, built for Lutheran worshippers in 1726 under strict conditions imposed by the Catholic Habsburg authorities. After decades of religious conflict, the Hungarian diet of 1681 allowed Protestants to build churches in certain places, but they had to be made entirely of wood, without stone foundations or metal nails, outside the village centre, with no tower, and built within a single year. The Hronsek church was constructed of spruce and larch, held together by wooden joints, and it can seat more than a thousand people. A separate wooden bell tower stands beside it. Along with other wooden churches in the region, it was listed by UNESCO in 2008.
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Hronsek comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vlkolínec.
At the end of a narrow road climbing out of Ružomberok, a single street of log houses runs up a hillside meadow beneath the forests of the Veľká Fatra. Vlkolínec has been a World Heritage Site since 1993, chosen as the most complete surviving example of a traditional Central European mountain village of its kind, and it remains a lived-in place rather than an open-air museum, with residents, gardens and the occasional dog asleep in the sun.
Read the complete Vlkolínec write-up.
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about 101 km into the recorded legs you reach Vlkolínec. Next is back through Hronsek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hronsek write-up.
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back through Hronsek, late in the day. Next is Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the. That is the ride.
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the → Hronsek is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hronsek → Vlkolínec is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vlkolínec → back through Hronsek is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hronsek → Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.