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 313 km round trip from Zamość - roughly 6 h 09 in the saddle. The stops in between: Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol, Roztochya, Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch and back through Roztochya. It crosses from Poland into Ukraine - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Old City of Zamość write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol write-up.
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Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roztochya.
Roztochia is a low, wooded ridge that runs like a spine from southeastern Poland down to the outskirts of Lviv, and on its Ukrainian end, between Ivano-Frankove and Novoyavorivsk, lies the Roztochia nature reserve. Its old beech woods were added in 2017 to the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a chain of forests that tells the story of how beech recolonised the continent after the Ice Age. The ridge is also a watershed: rain that falls on one side ends up in the Baltic by way of the Vistula, and on the other in the Black Sea by way of the Dniester. Standing on a hilltop and knowing that is oddly satisfying.
Read the complete Roztochya write-up.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Roztochya. Next is Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch, 53 km on.
High on a hill above the old town of Lviv sits a cathedral that looks as if the baroque had a sense of humour. St George's, the main church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic community, was built in the middle of the eighteenth century, in a style that mixes baroque and the lighter rococo, with a pale stone facade full of sculpted saints, columns, and a swirl of decoration across the pediment. The figures were carved by Johann Georg Pinsel, a sculptor whose twisting, ecstatic figures are among the most original in central Europe. The ensemble includes a bell tower, a chapter house and a palace for the metropolitan, all set around a courtyard with a long view down to the city.
Read the complete Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch write-up.
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Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch, about halfway. Next is back through Roztochya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roztochya write-up.
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back through Roztochya sits at 213 km, about halfway. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol comes up about 242 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Old City of Zamość closes the day.
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 → Roztochya is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roztochya → Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ensemble of St.Yuri - the Dragonfighter Ch → back through Roztochya is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roztochya → back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 50 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.