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 345 km round trip from Kalwaria Zebrzydowska - roughly 5 h 59 in the saddle. On the way it passes Salt Mine in Bochnia, Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less and back through Salt Mine in Bochnia. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In 1600, Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, a Polish nobleman, began to build a chapel on a hill south-west of Kraków, modelled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Over the following decades, he and his descendants added dozens of chapels and churches spread over the hills, laid out to recreate the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, with the landscape itself standing in for Jerusalem. The result, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999.
Read the complete Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi write-up.
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Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is where the day begins. Next is Salt Mine in Bochnia.
People were mining salt at Bochnia by the middle of the thirteenth century, which makes it the oldest salt mine in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe still open to visitors. For centuries the salt from here and from Wieliczka, about twenty-five kilometres to the west, filled the coffers of the Polish kings; at times it accounted for a remarkable share of the royal income. Together the two mines and the royal castle at Wieliczka form a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Salt Mine in Bochnia comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Hidden among the hills of the Beskid Sądecki, close to the Slovak border in southern Poland, the little wooden church at Powroźnik is one of the oldest of its kind still standing in the country. Its oldest parts date from around 1600, and it belongs to the group of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. A tserkva is an Eastern-rite church, and this one was built by the Lemkos, the Rusyn highlanders who farmed these valleys for centuries until most were forcibly resettled after the Second World War. Today it serves as a Catholic church, but the shape tells its origin story at once: a tower with a bulging onion-like cap, stepped shingle roofs and dark timber walls weathered almost black.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less. Next is back through Salt Mine in Bochnia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salt Mine in Bochnia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Salt Mine in Bochnia, late in the day. Next is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. That is the ride.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → Salt Mine in Bochnia is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Salt Mine in Bochnia → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → back through Salt Mine in Bochnia is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Salt Mine in Bochnia → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.