CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Kladanj it runs 325 km to Kladanj; allow about 8 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Mramor in Musići, Luburića polje, Kučarin in Hrančići and back through Luburića polje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
In a meadow above the Drinjača valley, a short way from the small town of Kladanj, a group of carved limestone blocks lies scattered among the grass and young trees. These are stećci, the medieval tombstones of Bosnia and the surrounding lands, and Olovci is one of the necropolises listed together by UNESCO as a single heritage site spread across four countries. The stones date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Some are plain slabs or chests, others shaped like little houses with pitched roofs, and the best of them carry reliefs: spirals, crescent moons, vines, hunting scenes, a figure with a raised hand. Nobody is entirely sure who was buried under them, and the arguments about whether they belonged to Catholics, Orthodox or the Bosnian church have run for a century.
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Olovci is where the day begins. 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.
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Mramor in Musići comes up 38 km in. 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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76 km in you reach Luburića polje. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
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Kučarin in Hrančići, about halfway. Next is back through Luburića polje.
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Read the complete Luburića polje write-up.
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back through Luburića polje sits at 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mramor in Musići.
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Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
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back through Mramor in Musići comes up 190 km in. Next is Olovci.
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Read the complete Olovci write-up.
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Olovci closes the day.
Olovci → Mramor in Musići is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramor in Musići → Luburića polje is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luburića polje → Kučarin in Hrančići is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Luburića polje is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luburića polje → back through Mramor in Musići is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mramor in Musići → Olovci is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.