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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277 km from Zamość to Zamość, about 4 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol, Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles and back through Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol. It crosses from Poland into Ukraine - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Zamość is a town that was designed on a drawing board, and it shows. In 1580 the chancellor Jan Zamoyski, one of the richest men in Poland, hired an Italian architect from Padua, Bernardo Morando, to build an ideal Renaissance city on his own estate. The plan was strict and elegant, with a central square, a regular grid of streets, a palace, a cathedral, an academy and a ring of bastioned fortifications, and the town was meant to be a trading centre on the road between Lublin and Lviv. People called it the Padua of the North, and it was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1992.
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Old City of Zamość is where the day begins. Next is Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
In the village of Potelych, in western Ukraine near the Polish border, a wooden church has stood since the early sixteenth century. The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine, built of logs with a tall roof covered in shingles, and its interior holds wall paintings and an iconostasis from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
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Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles.
Out on the flat, open country east of the San river, close to the Ukrainian border, stands a wooden church that has been watching the fields for more than four hundred years. The Church of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Chotyniec dates from the early seventeenth century and belongs to the eastern tradition of Christian building in this borderland, where Ruthenian communities worshipped in the Greek rite. It is one of the churches listed together as the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region, and it has a tall, three-part design, with a nave, a smaller chancel and a bell tower, each topped by a wooden cupola.
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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles. Next is back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol write-up.
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back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol, late in the day. Next is Old City of Zamość.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old City of Zamość write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Old City of Zamość. That is the ride.
Old City of Zamość → Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Old City of Zamość is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.