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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423 km from Kežmarok to Kežmarok, about 7 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Levoča, Hervartov, Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva and Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Slovakia into Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Kežmarok sits at the foot of the High Tatras in northern Slovakia, and on a clear day the jagged peaks of the smallest high mountain range in Europe rise above the town like a wall. It is an old town with a mixed history: founded by German settlers in the Middle Ages, it was a free royal town and a centre of trade and crafts, and its wealthy citizens built a castle, churches and fine houses around the square.
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Kežmarok is where the day begins. Next is Levoča.
Spread across a ridge in eastern Slovakia, with the jagged peaks of the High Tatras rising on the northern horizon, the Spiš region holds one of Europe's great clusters of medieval monuments. The town of Levoča, the old regional capital, was a wealthy royal free town, and its walls, burgher houses and Renaissance town hall still surround a long central square. Inside the church of St James stands Master Paul of Levoča's carved Gothic altarpiece, finished in the early sixteenth century and the tallest of its kind in the world, an astonishing tower of limewood saints and filigree.
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Levoča comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hervartov.
Hervartov is a small village in the hills of north-eastern Slovakia, a few kilometres from Bardejov, and its wooden church of Saint Francis of Assisi is considered the oldest surviving wooden church in the country, built in the late Middle Ages in the Gothic style. It is one of eight wooden churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area inscribed by UNESCO in 2008, alongside Greek Catholic, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches that together tell the story of the many faiths and peoples of this borderland.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Hervartov. Next is Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
The little wooden church at Kwiatoń is often called the most beautiful of its kind in Poland, and when you see it you understand why. Built in the seventeenth century by the Lemko community, it has three parts, each topped by a tower with a bulbous cupola, rising in height from the sanctuary at the east to the bell tower at the west, all clad in wooden shingles and set in a green churchyard among old trees. Inside, painted walls and an iconostasis of icons glow in the dim light. It is one of the wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
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Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, about halfway. Next is Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska.
The church of St Michael the Archangel in Binarowa looks, from the outside, like a simple barn with a tower: dark shingled walls, a steep roof and a small onion-topped belfry. Step inside and the walls and ceiling explode with colour, covered with painted decoration of saints, scenes from the Bible and floral patterns, some of them centuries old. Built around 1500 of larch and fir, without nails in the traditional joinery, it is one of the Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic churches inscribed as a World Heritage site. The local story is that it was built from timber left over from another church, but whatever its origins, the result is one of the finest wooden interiors in Poland.
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Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska sits at 173 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
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back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva comes up about 254 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hervartov.
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about 299 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hervartov. Next is back through Levoča.
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Read the complete Levoča write-up.
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back through Levoča, late in the day. Next is Kezmarok.
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Read the complete Kezmarok write-up.
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The route ends here after 423 km.
Kežmarok → Levoča is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Levoča → Hervartov is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hervartov → Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska → back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → back through Hervartov is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hervartov → back through Levoča is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Levoča → Kezmarok is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.