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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331 km from Zamość to Zamość, about 6 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol, Roztochya, Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity and back through Roztochya. It crosses from Poland into Ukraine - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Roztochya. Next is Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
Zhovkva was designed as an ideal Renaissance town. In the late sixteenth century, Stanisław Żółkiewski, a Polish nobleman and military commander, founded it north of Lviv with a castle, a market square, churches and fortifications laid out according to the principles of the time. Later, the town was a favourite residence of King Jan III Sobieski, who defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683. The Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, a wooden church built in 1720, stands on the edge of the town, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
Read the complete Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity write-up.
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Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, about halfway. Next is back through Roztochya.
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Read the complete Roztochya write-up.
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back through Roztochya sits at 207 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.
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back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol comes up about 258 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 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roztochya → Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → back through Roztochya is 44 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 49 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.