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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328 km from Ig to Ig, about 5 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, City Fortress of Palmanova and back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. It crosses from Slovenia into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
The oldest wheel in the world was found in a peat bog in Slovenia, and the bog is the Ljubljana Marshes. Archaeologists working here in 2002 pulled out a wooden wheel with its axle, dating from around 3100 BC, which is now in the city museum in Ljubljana. The find was made close to the village of Ig, a few kilometres south of the capital, where for centuries people built houses on stilts above the wet ground. The pile dwellings at Ig, called Kolišča in Slovenian, are one of the settlements that UNESCO lists among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
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Kolišča na Igu is where the day begins. Next is Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
Deep in a wooded gorge above Idrija, where the stream called Idrijska Bela tumbles over pale limestone, stands one of the strangest pieces of old engineering in Slovenia: a klavže, a water barrier built of massive dressed stone blocks across the narrow valley. Its job had nothing to do with power or flood control. Idrija's mercury mine, one of the two largest in the world for centuries, devoured timber for its shafts and smelters, and the forests close to town were soon exhausted. So the miners built these dams on mountain streams, let water build up behind them, piled cut logs in the bed below and then opened the gates. The released flood swept the timber all the way down to Idrija, where it was caught at a rake across the river.
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Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach City Fortress of Palmanova. Next is back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
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Read the complete Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the write-up.
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back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, late in the day. Next is Kolišča na Igu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kolišča na Igu write-up.
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Back at Kolišča na Igu. That is the ride.
Kolišča na Igu → Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → City Fortress of Palmanova is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
City Fortress of Palmanova → back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → Kolišča na Igu is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.