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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364 km from Ig to Ig, about 5 h 33 of riding. On the way it passes Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa, Roman Walls in Mirje, Idrija - Smelting Plant and back through Roman Walls in Mirje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa.
Idrija sits at the bottom of a narrow, steep-sided valley in western Slovenia, and for about five hundred years the town made a living from the red mineral cinnabar, the ore of mercury. The mine at Idrija was one of the largest mercury mines in Europe, second only to Almadén in Spain, and the two sites share UNESCO World Heritage status. The Kamšt is the best monument to that history: a huge wooden waterwheel, more than thirteen metres across, built in the late eighteenth century to drive pumps that kept the mine from flooding.
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Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roman Walls in Mirje.
In the middle of Ljubljana, on Mirje street, a long stretch of reconstructed wall recalls the Roman town of Emona. The Romans founded Emona in the early first century AD, on a grid of streets beside the Ljubljanica river, as a frontier outpost and trading town on the road between Italy and the Danube. It had walls, gates, forums, baths and a population of several thousand. Later, the town was sacked by Huns and other invaders, and its stones were reused for centuries, so that very little survived above ground.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Roman Walls in Mirje. Next is Idrija - Smelting Plant.
In 1490, so the story goes, a tub-maker soaking a wooden vessel in a spring found shiny drops of liquid metal at the bottom. It was mercury, and the mine that grew from that discovery at Idrija, in the hills of western Slovenia, became the second largest mercury mine in the world, operating for five centuries. Together with Almadén in Spain, it was inscribed by UNESCO in 2012. The smelting plant, where the ore was roasted to release the mercury vapour, was the heart of the operation, and its buildings and furnaces now tell the story of the industry and its toll on the workers.
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Idrija - Smelting Plant, about halfway. Next is back through Roman Walls in Mirje.
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back through Roman Walls in Mirje sits at 200 km, about halfway. Next is back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa.
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Read the complete Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa write-up.
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back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa comes up about 299 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kolišča na Igu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kolišča na Igu write-up.
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Kolišča na Igu closes the day.
Kolišča na Igu → Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa → Roman Walls in Mirje is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman Walls in Mirje → Idrija - Smelting Plant is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrija - Smelting Plant → back through Roman Walls in Mirje is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roman Walls in Mirje → back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa → Kolišča na Igu is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.