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 Višegrad it runs 576 km to Višegrad; allow about 11 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Mramor in Vrbica, Grčko groblje and back through Mramor in Vrbica. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Serbia - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Eleven stone arches cross the Drina at Višegrad, pale against the green water, and the bridge has been doing so since the 1570s. It was commissioned by Mehmed Paša Sokolović, a boy from a nearby village who was taken as a child into Ottoman service and rose to become Grand Vizier, the most powerful man in the empire after the sultan. He had it built by Mimar Sinan, the greatest architect of the Ottoman age, and it remains one of the masterpieces of that era, listed by UNESCO in 2007.
Read the complete Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad write-up.
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Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is where the day begins. Next is Mramor in Vrbica.
The Drina is a river that runs through every story in this part of the Balkans, and Foča sits on one of its finest stretches. The town, with about fourteen thousand people, lies where the Drina meets the Ćehotina, among steep green mountains, and the old Aladža mosque, a painted sixteenth-century building, was one of the most beautiful Ottoman monuments in the region before it was destroyed in the war of the 1990s and then rebuilt. Foča carries that history quietly, and it is a place where you should listen more than talk.
Read the complete Mramor in Vrbica write-up.
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Mramor in Vrbica comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grčko groblje.
Pljevlja lies in a high basin in the north of Montenegro, an hour or so from the great canyon of the Tara and the peaks of Durmitor, and it is a town that people rarely visit on purpose. It has a coal mine and a power station, and in winter smoke can hang in the valley. But the old centre has two buildings that deserve a stop, the Husein-pasha mosque, a sixteenth-century Ottoman building with a tall slender minaret and painted interior, and the Holy Trinity monastery, with its fine iconostasis, carved by local craftsmen in the nineteenth century. The mix of mosque and church a few minutes apart says a lot about this part of the Balkans.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
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about 287 km into the recorded legs you reach Grčko groblje. Next is back through Mramor in Vrbica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramor in Vrbica write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mramor in Vrbica, late in the day. Next is Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. That is the ride.
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → Mramor in Vrbica is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mramor in Vrbica → Grčko groblje is 183 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grčko groblje → back through Mramor in Vrbica is 180 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mramor in Vrbica → Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.