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 Dolný Kubín it runs 428 km to Dolný Kubín; allow about 7 h 31 of riding. On the way it passes Hronsek, Component of Koniar plateau and back through Hronsek. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. Open plateau country, wide and exposed.
Leštiny is a small village in the Orava region of northern Slovakia, a short distance from Dolný Kubín, and its pride is a wooden Lutheran church that looks, from outside, more like a large farmhouse than a place of worship. This is one of the articular churches, built under strict conditions imposed in the late seventeenth century, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed in 2008.
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Leštiny is where the day begins. Next is Hronsek.
The wooden church at Hronsek looks at first like a large barn with a steep shingle roof, standing among old lime trees in a village in the Hron valley. It is in fact one of the rarest kinds of building in Central Europe: an articular church, built for Lutheran worshippers in 1726 under strict conditions imposed by the Catholic Habsburg authorities. After decades of religious conflict, the Hungarian diet of 1681 allowed Protestants to build churches in certain places, but they had to be made entirely of wood, without stone foundations or metal nails, outside the village centre, with no tower, and built within a single year. The Hronsek church was constructed of spruce and larch, held together by wooden joints, and it can seat more than a thousand people. A separate wooden bell tower stands beside it. Along with other wooden churches in the region, it was listed by UNESCO in 2008.
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Hronsek comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component of Koniar plateau.
The Koniar plateau is a slab of limestone lifted above the surrounding valleys in southern Slovakia, one of the high karst tablelands that together make up the Slovak Karst. From the road it looks like nothing much: open grassland, scattered trees, a few pastures, steep wooded edges falling to the valleys of the Slaná and its tributaries. The interest is underneath. Rain soaks straight through the limestone, carving caves, shafts and swallow holes, and the whole cave system of the Slovak Karst and Hungary's Aggtelek, just over the border, is protected as a single World Heritage site. Nearby you will find the Ochtinská aragonite cave, filled with white needle-like crystals, the Gombasecká cave with its thin straw stalactites and, further north, the Dobšinská ice cave.
Read the complete Component of Koniar plateau write-up.
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about 208 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Koniar plateau. Next is back through Hronsek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hronsek write-up.
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back through Hronsek, late in the day. Next is Lestiny.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lestiny write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Lestiny. That is the ride.
Leštiny → Hronsek is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hronsek → Component of Koniar plateau is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component of Koniar plateau → back through Hronsek is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hronsek → Lestiny is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.