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 89 km to Uście Gorlickie; allow about 2 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Church of St Philip and St James the Apost, Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska and back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
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 Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
The wooden church in Sękowa is small, dark and quietly astonishing. It stands on a slope in the Beskid Niski, the low and thickly wooded mountains of south-eastern Poland, and dates from the early sixteenth century, with a steep shingled roof, a tower with a pointed top and a gallery running around the walls. The timber has gone almost black with age, and inside the walls and ceiling are painted with colourful flowers, figures and scenes of faith from the seventeenth century. It is one of the wooden churches of southern Małopolska listed by UNESCO in 2003, and unlike a museum piece, it is still used for services.
Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
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Church of St Philip and St James the Apost comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska.
The church of St Michael the Archangel in Binarowa looks, from the outside, like a simple barn with a tower: dark shingled walls, a steep roof and a small onion-topped belfry. Step inside and the walls and ceiling explode with colour, covered with painted decoration of saints, scenes from the Bible and floral patterns, some of them centuries old. Built around 1500 of larch and fir, without nails in the traditional joinery, it is one of the Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic churches inscribed as a World Heritage site. The local story is that it was built from timber left over from another church, but whatever its origins, the result is one of the finest wooden interiors in Poland.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska write-up.
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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska. Next is back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of St Philip and St James the Apost write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost, late in the day. Next is Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva. That is the ride.
Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska → back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.