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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153 km from Lviv to Lviv, about 2 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, Roztochya and back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Few city centres in Europe have had as many names as this one. Lviv to Ukrainians, Lwow to the Poles who ruled it for centuries, Lemberg to the Habsburg officials who governed Galicia, and Lvov to the Soviets, it is a city that was built by many hands and still shows every one of them. The old town, a UNESCO listing, is a dense tangle of streets around the Rynok, the market square, where the houses are tall, narrow and ornamented with carved stone, each with its own character and its own story.
Read the complete L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr write-up.
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L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr is where the day begins. Next is Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
Zhovkva was designed as an ideal Renaissance town. In the late sixteenth century, Stanisław Żółkiewski, a Polish nobleman and military commander, founded it north of Lviv with a castle, a market square, churches and fortifications laid out according to the principles of the time. Later, the town was a favourite residence of King Jan III Sobieski, who defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683. The Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, a wooden church built in 1720, stands on the edge of the town, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
Read the complete Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity write-up.
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Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roztochya.
Roztochia is a low, wooded ridge that runs like a spine from southeastern Poland down to the outskirts of Lviv, and on its Ukrainian end, between Ivano-Frankove and Novoyavorivsk, lies the Roztochia nature reserve. Its old beech woods were added in 2017 to the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a chain of forests that tells the story of how beech recolonised the continent after the Ice Age. The ridge is also a watershed: rain that falls on one side ends up in the Baltic by way of the Vistula, and on the other in the Black Sea by way of the Dniester. Standing on a hilltop and knowing that is oddly satisfying.
Read the complete Roztochya write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Roztochya. Next is back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, late in the day. Next is L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr. That is the ride.
L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr → Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → Roztochya is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roztochya → back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.