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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From Nevesinje it runs 512 km to Nevesinje; allow about 8 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar, Bijača, Dugo polje at Blidinje and Ravanjska vrata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 50 km this is Bosnia Mostar to Sarajevo Mountain Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Nevesinjsko polje is a broad, flat-floored basin high in the karst of eastern Herzegovina, ringed by bare limestone hills, and at Krekovi, near its edge, a group of stećci known as Kalufi stands in the grass. These medieval tombstones, carved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, belong to the transnational World Heritage Site inscribed in 2016. At Krekovi you find slabs, chests and gabled forms, some decorated with crosses, rosettes and borders, set in rows facing roughly east to west in the old tradition.
Read the complete Kalufi in Krekovi write-up.
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Kalufi in Krekovi is where the day begins. Next is Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar.
The Old Bridge in Mostar is a single stone arch, slender and impossibly high, leaping across the emerald-green Neretva between two fortified towers. The Ottomans built it in the 1560s, designed by an architect named Mimar Hayruddin, and for more than four centuries it stood as a symbol of the city. On 9 November 1993, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was shelled and collapsed into the river. It was rebuilt with the original techniques and stone recovered from the riverbed and reopened in 2004, and the following year UNESCO listed the Old Bridge Area as a symbol of reconciliation and cultural coexistence.
Read the complete Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar write-up.
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Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bijača.
In western Herzegovina, near the town of Ljubuški and close to the Croatian border, the land is a mix of karst hills, fertile valleys and vineyards, baked by the sun and scented with sage and fig. Near the village of Bijača, the necropolis of stećci, the medieval tombstones that are unique to this region, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, spread across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. The tombstones, carved with crosses, spirals, figures and inscriptions, stand among the grass and stones, a silent reminder of the people who lived here centuries ago.
Read the complete Bijača write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Bijača. 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 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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Ravanjska vrata sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dugo polje at Blidinje.
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Read the complete Dugo polje at Blidinje write-up.
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back through Dugo polje at Blidinje comes up about 319 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Bijača.
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Read the complete Bijača write-up.
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about 413 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Bijača. Next is back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar write-up.
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back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar, late in the day. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalufi in Krekovi write-up.
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The route ends here after 512 km.
Kalufi in Krekovi → Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar → Bijača is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bijača → Dugo polje at Blidinje is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dugo polje at Blidinje → Ravanjska vrata is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ravanjska vrata → back through Dugo polje at Blidinje is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dugo polje at Blidinje → back through Bijača is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bijača → back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar → Kalufi in Krekovi is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.