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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From Uście Gorlickie it runs 253 km to Uście Gorlickie; allow about 5 h 38 of riding. The stops in between: Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, Hervartov, Ladomirová and back through Hervartov. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
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Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is where the day begins. Next is Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Hidden among the hills of the Beskid Sądecki, close to the Slovak border in southern Poland, the little wooden church at Powroźnik is one of the oldest of its kind still standing in the country. Its oldest parts date from around 1600, and it belongs to the group of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. A tserkva is an Eastern-rite church, and this one was built by the Lemkos, the Rusyn highlanders who farmed these valleys for centuries until most were forcibly resettled after the Second World War. Today it serves as a Catholic church, but the shape tells its origin story at once: a tower with a bulging onion-like cap, stepped shingle roofs and dark timber walls weathered almost black.
Read the complete Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less write-up.
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Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 41 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 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Hervartov. Next is Ladomirová.
In the village of Ladomirová, just north of Svidník in north-eastern Slovakia, a small wooden church dedicated to the Archangel Michael stands on a gentle rise among trees. Built in the eighteenth century by the Greek Catholic community without using a single nail, it has three wooden towers with onion-shaped tops, rising in height from east to west, and its interior holds an iconostasis of painted icons. It is one of the eight wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians inscribed together by UNESCO in 2008, and its simplicity and craftsmanship are deeply moving.
Read the complete Ladomirová write-up.
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Ladomirová, about halfway. Next is back through Hervartov.
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Read the complete Hervartov write-up.
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back through Hervartov sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
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Read the complete Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less write-up.
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back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
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Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva closes the day.
Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Hervartov is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hervartov → Ladomirová is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ladomirová → back through Hervartov is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hervartov → back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.