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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From Dubrovnik it runs 461 km to Dubrovnik; allow about 10 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Boljuni, Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup and back through Boljuni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Croatia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Dubrovnik is the place where the Dalmatian coast reaches its theatrical climax: a walled city of pale limestone thrust out into a sea that refuses to be any colour but deep blue. The walls run for nearly two kilometres around the old town, with towers, bastions and the great Minčeta fortress on the landward side, and inside them the marble-paved Stradun runs straight from the Pile Gate to the old port. For centuries this was the Republic of Ragusa, a small, astute maritime state that survived between Venice and the Ottoman Empire through trade, diplomacy and a famously effective tribute system, until Napoleon ended its independence in the early nineteenth century.
Read the complete Old City of Dubrovnik write-up.
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Old City of Dubrovnik is where the day begins. Next is Boljuni.
In the stony hills of eastern Herzegovina, a few kilometres from Stolac, a field of grey limestone blocks lies scattered among oak scrub and dry grass. These are stećci, medieval tombstones carved between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Boljuni has a few hundred of them, many decorated with reliefs: rosettes, crescents, spirals, hunters with spears, dancing figures holding hands, a man raising an oversized hand as if in greeting. Nobody fully agrees on who made them or what all the symbols mean, which makes standing among them oddly moving. Together with other cemeteries across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, Boljuni is part of the UNESCO site of Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards, inscribed in 2016.
Read the complete Boljuni write-up.
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Boljuni comes up about 81 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 230 km into the recorded legs you reach Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup. Next is back through Boljuni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boljuni write-up.
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back through Boljuni, late in the day. Next is Old City of Dubrovnik.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old City of Dubrovnik write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Old City of Dubrovnik. That is the ride.
Old City of Dubrovnik → Boljuni is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boljuni → Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 149 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → back through Boljuni is 152 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Boljuni → Old City of Dubrovnik is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.