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 349 km round trip from Acre - roughly 5 h 40 in the saddle. The stops in between: Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of, Sebastia, White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme and back through Sebastia. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Acre, or Akko, is a walled port on the northern arm of Haifa Bay, and almost every century has left a layer on it. The Crusaders made it their last great stronghold in the Holy Land until it fell in 1291, and the vaulted halls of the Knights Hospitaller still lie underneath the Ottoman town built on top. The Ottomans rebuilt the walls in the eighteenth century, added the mosque of al-Jazzar, a caravanserai with a courtyard of columns, and a labyrinth of covered markets. The whole old city is a UNESCO site.
Read the complete House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá write-up.
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House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá is where the day begins. Next is Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
In the second century AD, after the failed revolts against Rome, the centre of Jewish life moved to Galilee, and the Sanhedrin, the supreme rabbinical council, settled for a time at Bet She'arim, on a hill at the western edge of the Jezreel valley. Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, the patriarch who compiled the Mishnah, the first great codification of Jewish law, lived here, and when he was buried in the necropolis, Jews from all over the diaspora wanted to be buried near him. The result is a vast network of catacombs carved into the soft limestone, listed by UNESCO in 2015.
Read the complete Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of write-up.
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Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sebastia.
Sebastia, Sabastiya in Arabic, is a Palestinian village on a hill north-west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, surrounded by olive groves and terraced hillsides. It stands on the site of Samaria, the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the ninth and eighth centuries BC, later rebuilt by Herod the Great, who named it Sebaste in honour of the Emperor Augustus. The ruins on the hilltop above the village span a thousand years of history.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Sebastia. Next is White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme.
White walls, rounded balconies, ribbon windows and flat roofs: walking through central Tel Aviv you are surrounded by one of the largest collections of buildings in the International Style anywhere in the world. Several thousand were built in the 1930s and 1940s, many by architects who had trained in Europe, some at the Bauhaus, and who adapted the modernist ideas to the Mediterranean climate with balconies for shade and raised ground floors for air. The White City, as it is called, became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The plan of the city itself was drawn up by the Scottish urbanist Patrick Geddes in the 1920s, with tree lined boulevards and green squares.
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White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme, about halfway. Next is back through Sebastia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sebastia sits at 212 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 314 km into the recorded legs. Next is House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá closes the day.
House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá → Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Sebastia is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → back through Sebastia is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sebastia → back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.