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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312 km from Prača to Prača, about 8 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Borak in the village of Burati, Luburića polje, Mramor in Musići and Olovci. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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Kučarin in Hrančići is where the day begins. Next is Borak in the village of Burati.
Scattered across the meadows and forest edges of Bosnia and Herzegovina are thousands of carved medieval tombstones called stećci, great blocks of limestone shaped like chests, slabs or little gabled houses, some plain and some carved with spirals, vines, crescent moons, hunting scenes, dancers and raised hands. They date mostly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and together with sites in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia they were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016 as the Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards. Borak, near the village of Burati in the hills above Rogatica, is one of these graveyards, a cluster of stones lying among the grass where they have stood for six hundred years or more.
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Borak in the village of Burati comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Luburića polje.
The Romanija plateau east of Sarajevo is a strange and beautiful upland: rolling meadows and dark pine forests at around a thousand metres, under a sky that seems bigger than it should. Luburića polje, a field near the town of Sokolac, holds one of the necropolises of stećci, the medieval tombstones of the Balkans listed by UNESCO, and the surrounding countryside has been a place of burial for thousands of years.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Luburića polje. Next is Mramor in Musići.
In a meadow near the village of Musići, in the hills around Olovo in central Bosnia, stands a group of stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this part of the Balkans. They date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the people who raised them were Bosnian Christians, Catholics and Orthodox alike. The Musići necropolis is part of the group of stećci cemeteries inscribed by UNESCO in 2016, and its stones are among the finest: big slabs and house-shaped blocks decorated with spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes and strange, almost abstract human figures.
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Mramor in Musići, about halfway. Next is Olovci.
In a meadow above the Drinjača valley, a short way from the small town of Kladanj, a group of carved limestone blocks lies scattered among the grass and young trees. These are stećci, the medieval tombstones of Bosnia and the surrounding lands, and Olovci is one of the necropolises listed together by UNESCO as a single heritage site spread across four countries. The stones date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Some are plain slabs or chests, others shaped like little houses with pitched roofs, and the best of them carry reliefs: spirals, crescent moons, vines, hunting scenes, a figure with a raised hand. Nobody is entirely sure who was buried under them, and the arguments about whether they belonged to Catholics, Orthodox or the Bosnian church have run for a century.
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Olovci sits at 118 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mramor in Musići.
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back through Mramor in Musići comes up about 197 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Luburića polje.
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about 251 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Luburića polje. Next is back through Borak in the village of Burati.
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back through Borak in the village of Burati, late in the day. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
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The route ends here after 312 km.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Borak in the village of Burati is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → Luburića polje is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luburića polje → Mramor in Musići is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramor in Musići → Olovci is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olovci → back through Mramor in Musići is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mramor in Musići → back through Luburića polje is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luburića polje → back through Borak in the village of Burati is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borak in the village of Burati → Kučarin in Hrančići is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.