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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Cividale del Friuli it runs 365 km to Cividale del Friuli; allow about 7 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Idrija - Old Town, Snežnik-Ždrocle and back through Idrija - Old Town. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Italy into Slovenia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 87 km of Slovenia Soca Valley Road.
77 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Cividale del Friuli was founded as Forum Iulii, a market town established by Julius Caesar, and it gave its name to the whole region of Friuli. In 568, when the Lombards crossed the Alps and invaded Italy, Cividale was the first city they took, and it became the seat of their first duchy. The Lombards ruled much of Italy for two centuries, and Cividale preserves some of the finest traces of their culture. The Tempietto Longobardo, a small eighth-century chapel overlooking the river, holds a row of stucco female saints of extraordinary grace, among the most beautiful works of art of the early Middle Ages. It is the centrepiece of the UNESCO listing of the Longobards in Italy, Places of the Power, along with sites from Brescia to Benevento. The National Archaeological Museum displays jewellery, weapons and grave goods from Lombard tombs.
Read the complete Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power write-up.
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Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power is where the day begins. Next is Idrija - Old Town.
Mercury is a strange thing to build a town on. In 1490, according to the story, a local cooper was soaking a tub in a spring when he noticed a gleaming liquid metal in the bottom, and the find was the start of one of the biggest mercury mines in the world. Idrija, a small town in a narrow valley in western Slovenia, became rich on the metal, which was used for medicine, mirrors, gold extraction and later for gunpowder detonators. The mine ran for about five hundred years until it was closed in 1994, and together with the mine at Almaden in Spain, Idrija was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 2012.
Read the complete Idrija - Old Town write-up.
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Idrija - Old Town comes up about 87 km into the recorded legs. Next is Snežnik-Ždrocle.
Ždrocle is a fragment of primeval beech forest on the slopes of Snežnik, the big karst mountain in the far south of Slovenia, close to the Croatian border, and it is one of the components of the great European UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests. That listing stretches from the Carpathians to Spain, but here you are in its Dinaric heart, where beech, fir and maple grow on a chaotic surface of limestone sinkholes, sharp ridges and hollows full of moss. Snežnik itself rises to just under eighteen hundred metres and holds its snow late, which is how it got its name.
Read the complete Snežnik-Ždrocle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Snežnik-Ždrocle. Next is back through Idrija - Old Town.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Idrija - Old Town write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Idrija - Old Town, late in the day. Next is Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power, 70 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power. That is the ride.
Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power → Idrija - Old Town is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrija - Old Town → Snežnik-Ždrocle is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Snežnik-Ždrocle → back through Idrija - Old Town is 106 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Idrija - Old Town → Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.