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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192 km from Alfta to Alfta, about 3 h 36 of riding. On the way it passes Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, Bommars and back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Farms in Hälsingland look like farms, until you open the door. Jon-Lars, near Alfta in the forested heart of the province, is one of the seven farmsteads inscribed in 2012 as the Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, and from the road it seems a tidy group of dark red timber buildings around a yard. Inside, the festive rooms are covered with painted decoration, with flowers, curtains, biblical scenes and trompe-l'oeil swags painted in the nineteenth century, when the farmers were rich.
Read the complete Jon-Lars write-up.
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Jon-Lars is where the day begins. Next is Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland.
Farmers in nineteenth-century Hälsingland had money, thanks to flax, timber and good land, and they spent it on houses. Their large wooden farmhouses, many of them painted red with Falun copper-mine pigment, often contained rooms reserved for festivities, decorated by itinerant painters with flowers, biblical scenes and allegories in bright colours. Seven of these farms, including Pallars in Järvsö, Gästgivars in Vallsta and Bommars in Letsbo, were inscribed together by UNESCO in 2012, and stepping into their painted rooms is like entering a folk tale.
Read the complete Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland write-up.
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Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bommars.
In the forests of Hälsingland, in central Sweden, you find farms that look as though they belong in a fairy tale. Prosperous farmers of the nineteenth century, who made their money from flax and timber, built large, many-roomed farmhouses and decorated their best rooms with paintings, wallpaper and carved details, often in rich reds, blues and golds. Several of these farms, the Hälsingegårdar, were listed by UNESCO in 2012, and others are still in private hands and used as homes. The place named on our list lies in the countryside near Ljusdal, in this farming country.
Read the complete Bommars write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Bommars. Next is back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, late in the day. Next is Jon-Lars.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jon-Lars write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Jon-Lars. That is the ride.
Jon-Lars → Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland → Bommars is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bommars → back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland → Jon-Lars is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.