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 Litomyšl it runs 338 km to Litomyšl; allow about 5 h 13 of riding. It goes by way of Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer, Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at and back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 85 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Bedřich Smetana, the composer of Má vlast and The Bartered Bride, was born in 1824 in the brewery of Litomyšl Castle, where his father was the brewer, and the town has never forgotten it. Every summer, the castle courtyard hosts an opera festival named after him, Smetanova Litomyšl, and his birthplace in the brewery building is a small museum. The castle itself, an elegant Renaissance building with arcaded courtyards, was built in the sixteenth century for the Pernštejn family and is famous for its sgraffito decoration: the facades are covered with thousands of rectangular panels, each with a slightly different pattern. It was listed by UNESCO in 1999.
Read the complete Litomyšl Castle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Litomyšl Castle 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 86 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at. 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, late in the day. Next is Litomyšl Castle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Litomyšl Castle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Litomyšl Castle. That is the ride.
Litomyšl Castle → Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → 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 → Litomyšl Castle is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.