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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373 km from Zvolen to Zvolen, about 6 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Lestiny, Church of the Archangel Michael and back through Lestiny. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Slovakia into Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Hronsek write-up.
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Hronsek is where the day begins. Next is Lestiny.
Leštiny is a small village in the Orava region of northern Slovakia, a short distance from Dolný Kubín, and its pride is a wooden Lutheran church that looks, from outside, more like a large farmhouse than a place of worship. This is one of the articular churches, built under strict conditions imposed in the late seventeenth century, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed in 2008.
Read the complete Lestiny write-up.
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Leštiny comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of the Archangel Michael.
From the outside, the church in Dębno Podhalańskie looks like a sturdy wooden barn with a steep shingled roof and a squat tower, the kind of building you might ride past without a second glance. Step inside and the walls explode with colour: every surface covered in stencilled and painted patterns, animals, plants and geometric figures, dating back to around 1500, one of the best-preserved medieval painted interiors in Poland. The church, built of larch in the late fifteenth century, is part of the UNESCO listing of Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic timber churches that show the skill of local carpenters who built without nails.
Read the complete Church of the Archangel Michael write-up.
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about 187 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of the Archangel Michael. Next is back through Lestiny.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lestiny write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lestiny, late in the day. Next is Hronsek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hronsek write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hronsek. That is the ride.
Hronsek → Lestiny is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Leštiny → Church of the Archangel Michael is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of the Archangel Michael → back through Lestiny is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Lestiny → Hronsek is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.