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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A 510 km round trip from Olovo - roughly 12 h 53 in the saddle. The stops in between: Luburića polje, Kučarin in Hrančići, Gvozno and Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup. 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.
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Mramor in Musići is where the day begins. Next is Luburića polje.
The Romanija plateau east of Sarajevo is a strange and beautiful upland: rolling meadows and dark pine forests at around a thousand metres, under a sky that seems bigger than it should. Luburića polje, a field near the town of Sokolac, holds one of the necropolises of stećci, the medieval tombstones of the Balkans listed by UNESCO, and the surrounding countryside has been a place of burial for thousands of years.
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Luburića polje comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 128 km into the recorded legs you reach Kučarin in Hrančići. Next is Gvozno.
Out on the high karst plateau around Kalinovik, south of Sarajevo, the land opens into wide pastures and rocky hills at well over a thousand metres, ringed by the mountains of Treskavica, Lelija and Zelengora. Here and there, half-hidden in the grass, lie stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this corner of the Balkans. The necropolis at Gvozno is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, which spans Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Gvozno, about halfway. 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.
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Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gvozno.
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back through Gvozno comes up about 309 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kučarin in Hrančići.
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about 383 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kučarin in Hrančići. Next is back through Luburića polje.
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back through Luburića polje, late in the day. Next is Mramor in Musići.
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The route ends here after 510 km.
Mramor in Musići → Luburića polje is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luburića polje → Kučarin in Hrančići is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Gvozno is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → back through Gvozno is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gvozno → back through Kučarin in Hrančići is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Luburića polje is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luburića polje → Mramor in Musići is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.