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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344 km from Split to Split, about 4 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik, Defensive System of Zadar and back through The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
84 km on Historical Complex of Split with the Palac → The Cathedral of St James.
Few cities have grown inside a palace, but Split did exactly that. Around the year 300 the Roman emperor Diocletian, born in nearby Salona, built himself a vast fortified retirement residence on the shore of the Adriatic, a rectangle of walls, towers and gates. When Salona was sacked in the seventh century, refugees moved into the palace, and over the following centuries they turned its halls and corridors into streets and houses. The result is a living old town where medieval and Renaissance homes lean on Roman walls and washing hangs between ancient columns.
Read the complete Historical Complex of Split with the Palac write-up.
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Historical Complex of Split with the Palac 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.
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The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik comes up about 84 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.
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about 173 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.
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back through The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik, late in the day. Next is Historical Complex of Split with the Palac.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Complex of Split with the Palac write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historical Complex of Split with the Palac. That is the ride.
Historical Complex of Split with the Palac → The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik → Defensive System of Zadar is 89 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 → Historical Complex of Split with the Palac is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.