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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493 km from Olovo to Olovo, about 11 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Kučarin in Hrančići, Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup and back through Kučarin in Hrančići. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
In a meadow near the village of Musići, in the hills around Olovo in central Bosnia, stands a group of stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this part of the Balkans. They date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the people who raised them were Bosnian Christians, Catholics and Orthodox alike. The Musići necropolis is part of the group of stećci cemeteries inscribed by UNESCO in 2016, and its stones are among the finest: big slabs and house-shaped blocks decorated with spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes and strange, almost abstract human figures.
Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
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Mramor in Musići is where the day begins. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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Kučarin in Hrančići comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup.
The Greek hillock, Grčka glavica, is a misleading name: the medieval tombstones that crown it have nothing to do with Greece. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, folk tradition often credited the stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones of the region, to Greeks, giants or other mysterious ancestors, and the names have stuck. The necropolis near the village of Biskup, in the hills south of Konjic, is a group of these stones, some decorated with reliefs of crosses, rosettes, hunting scenes or figures, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of stećci medieval tombstone graveyards, listed in 2016.
Read the complete Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup write-up.
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about 245 km into the recorded legs you reach Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup. Next is back through Kučarin in Hrančići.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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back through Kučarin in Hrančići, late in the day. Next is Mramor in Musići.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mramor in Musići. That is the ride.
Mramor in Musići → Kučarin in Hrančići is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 142 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → back through Kučarin in Hrančići is 139 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići → Mramor in Musići is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.