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 322 km round trip from Kutná Hora - roughly 6 h 00 in the saddle. On the way it passes Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer, Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at, The Jewish Cemetery and back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Kutná Hora was once the second city of Bohemia, and the reason is silver. In the thirteenth century, rich veins were found in the hills here, and within a hundred years the town was producing a large share of Europe's silver, which paid for kings, armies and cathedrals. The royal mint, known as the Italian Court because of the Florentine craftsmen who ran it, struck the Prague groschen, a silver coin that circulated across Central Europe, and the Bohemian king sometimes stayed here. The wealth of the town is written in its buildings, notably the great Cathedral of Saint Barbara, a Gothic masterpiece with soaring, pointed vaults and flying buttresses like the ribs of a ship, dedicated to the patron saint of miners.
Read the complete Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th write-up.
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Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th is where the day begins. Next is Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer.
Kladruby nad Labem is a horse village in the flat country of the Elbe valley in eastern Bohemia, and its stud farm is among the oldest in the world. It was founded in the sixteenth century to breed carriage horses for the Habsburg court, and the Kladruber, a large, elegant horse that is usually white or black, is still bred here. The landscape, with its stables, riding grounds, pastures, avenues of trees and farm buildings laid out as a single working system, was added to the UNESCO list in 2019 as a cultural landscape.
Read the complete Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer write-up.
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Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at.
On a low wooded rise called Zelená hora, Green Mountain, just outside Žďár nad Sázavou, stands one of the strangest and most beautiful churches in Central Europe. The architect was Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel, a Prague builder of Italian descent who loved to mix Gothic forms with Baroque drama, and here he built a pilgrimage church to St John of Nepomuk in the 1720s, shortly before the saint was even canonised. Everything in it plays on the number five: a star-shaped ground plan, five gates, five altars, five-pointed geometry repeated in the cloister around it. The reason is the legend that five stars appeared over the Vltava when John's body was thrown into the river in Prague, and the saint's tongue, said to have been found uncorrupted, is the other motif you will spot once you know to look for it. UNESCO listed it in 1994.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at write-up.
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about 108 km into the recorded legs you reach Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at. Next is The Jewish Cemetery.
On a hillside above the Jihlava river in Třebíč, thousands of gravestones stand among trees, some upright, some leaning, some covered in ivy and moss, their Hebrew inscriptions weathered by centuries. The Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in the Czech Republic, founded in the seventeenth century and used until the Second World War, and it is part of the World Heritage listing of the Jewish quarter and St. Procopius' basilica in Třebíč, inscribed in 2003, the first Jewish monument outside Israel to be listed.
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The Jewish Cemetery, about halfway. Next is back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at.
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Read the complete Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at write-up.
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back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at sits at 220 km, about halfway. Next is back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer comes up about 296 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th closes the day.
Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th → Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer → Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at → The Jewish Cemetery is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Jewish Cemetery → back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at → back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer → Kutnà Hora: Historical Town Centre with th is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.