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 689 km round trip from Bajina Bašta - roughly 12 h 29 in the saddle. On the way it passes Borak in the village of Burati, Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, Luburića polje and Mramor in Musići. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Serbia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Standing stones in Serbia's western hills are not what most visitors expect, but the medieval necropolises called stećci are among the most remarkable monuments in the Balkans. They are big carved tombstones, shaped like chests, slabs or gabled roofs, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, and decorated with spirals, crescents, hunting scenes and knights on horseback. UNESCO listed a selection of the sites in 2016, and Mramorje, in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, is the Serbian one. The word comes from the old Slavic for standing, and at Mramorje, among the grass and beech trees, the stones lean at slight angles, mossy and weathered.
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Mramorje is where the day begins. Next is Borak in the village of Burati.
Scattered across the meadows and forest edges of Bosnia and Herzegovina are thousands of carved medieval tombstones called stećci, great blocks of limestone shaped like chests, slabs or little gabled houses, some plain and some carved with spirals, vines, crescent moons, hunting scenes, dancers and raised hands. They date mostly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and together with sites in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia they were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016 as the Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards. Borak, near the village of Burati in the hills above Rogatica, is one of these graveyards, a cluster of stones lying among the grass where they have stood for six hundred years or more.
Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
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Borak in the village of Burati comes up about 142 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
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.
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about 204 km into the recorded legs you reach Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. 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, about halfway. Next is Mramor in Musići.
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 sits at 203 km, about halfway. Next is back through Luburića polje.
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back through Luburića polje comes up about 398 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
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about 485 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. Next is back through Borak in the village of Burati.
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Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
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back through Borak in the village of Burati, late in the day. Next is Mramorje.
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Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
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The route ends here after 689 km.
Mramorje → Borak in the village of Burati is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → Luburića polje is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luburića polje → Mramor in Musići is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramor in Musići → back through Luburića polje is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luburića polje → back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → back through Borak in the village of Burati is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borak in the village of Burati → Mramorje is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.