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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403 km from Split to Split, about 7 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Velika and Mala Crljivica, Ravanjska vrata, Dugo polje at Blidinje and back through Ravanjska vrata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. 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.
54 km on Historical Complex of Split with the Palac → Velika and Mala Crljivica.
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.
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Historical Complex of Split with the Palac is where the day begins. Next is Velika and Mala Crljivica.
Behind the Makarska Riviera the land climbs abruptly into the grey limestone of Biokovo, and on the inland side of that range lies a high, stony plateau called the Dalmatian Zagora, a country of dry-stone walls, thin soil and scattered villages. Velika and Mala Crljivica, the Greater and Lesser Crljivica, sit in this landscape near the small town of Lovreć, about twenty-one kilometres from Omiš and a little further from Imotski, and the site is a field of old tombstones.
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Velika and Mala Crljivica comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ravanjska vrata.
The Kupres plateau is one of the high, open places of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than a thousand metres up, with wide grasslands, cold winters and a sky that seems close enough to touch. Ravanjska vrata, the gates of Ravno, lies in this landscape, between Kupres and Tomislavgrad, and it is known for a group of stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia, Herzegovina and the neighbouring countries. UNESCO listed a selection of these necropolises in 2016. The stones are often decorated with spirals, crosses, hunting scenes and figures with raised hands, and their makers remain a subject of debate.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Ravanjska vrata. Next is Dugo polje at Blidinje.
High on a karst plateau in Herzegovina, between the massive mountains of Čvrsnica and Vran, lies Blidinje, a wide upland valley of meadows, limestone outcrops and black pine forests at around twelve hundred metres. At Dugo polje, the long field, a cluster of medieval tombstones stands in the grass, carved with crosses, spirals, rosettes, hunting scenes and human figures. These are stećci, the distinctive gravestones of the medieval Balkans, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Dugo polje is one of the most impressive groups, part of the collection of stećci sites listed by UNESCO in 2016 across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Dugo polje at Blidinje, about halfway. Next is back through Ravanjska vrata.
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back through Ravanjska vrata sits at 212 km, about halfway. Next is back through Velika and Mala Crljivica.
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Read the complete Velika and Mala Crljivica write-up.
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back through Velika and Mala Crljivica comes up about 345 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Historical Complex of Split with the Palac closes the day.
Historical Complex of Split with the Palac → Velika and Mala Crljivica is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Velika and Mala Crljivica → Ravanjska vrata is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ravanjska vrata → Dugo polje at Blidinje is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dugo polje at Blidinje → back through Ravanjska vrata is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ravanjska vrata → back through Velika and Mala Crljivica is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Velika and Mala Crljivica → Historical Complex of Split with the Palac is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.