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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337 km from Sękowa to Sękowa, about 7 h 31 of riding. On the way it passes Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve, Ladomirová and back through Ladomirová. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Lemkos, a mountain people of the Carpathians, built their churches of wood, with onion domes and steep shingle roofs stepping up in tiers toward the west tower, and the one at Owczary, in the Low Beskids south of Gorlice, is one of the finest. Built in the mid seventeenth century as a Greek Catholic church, it was later enlarged and painted inside with a rich polychrome decoration. After the Second World War the Lemkos were deported from this region in Operation Vistula, and the church was taken over by the Roman Catholic parish, while the Greek Catholic community has also returned to use it. It is part of the World Heritage listing of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
Read the complete Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection write-up.
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Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is where the day begins. Next is Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
Hidden among the hills of the Beskid Sądecki, close to the Slovak border in southern Poland, the little wooden church at Powroźnik is one of the oldest of its kind still standing in the country. Its oldest parts date from around 1600, and it belongs to the group of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. A tserkva is an Eastern-rite church, and this one was built by the Lemkos, the Rusyn highlanders who farmed these valleys for centuries until most were forcibly resettled after the Second World War. Today it serves as a Catholic church, but the shape tells its origin story at once: a tower with a bulging onion-like cap, stepped shingle roofs and dark timber walls weathered almost black.
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Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve.
Bardejov's main square is a long, gently sloping rectangle lined with Gothic and Renaissance burgher houses, their tall gables painted in pastel colours, with the Gothic Basilica of St Giles at the top and the old town hall standing alone in the middle. The town grew rich in the Middle Ages on trade between Hungary and Poland, and its walls, bastions and moat largely survive. Bardejov was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2000, along with its Jewish suburb, with a synagogue and ritual bath from the eighteenth century, a reminder of the community that lived here until the Holocaust.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve. Next is Ladomirová.
In the village of Ladomirová, just north of Svidník in north-eastern Slovakia, a small wooden church dedicated to the Archangel Michael stands on a gentle rise among trees. Built in the eighteenth century by the Greek Catholic community without using a single nail, it has three wooden towers with onion-shaped tops, rising in height from east to west, and its interior holds an iconostasis of painted icons. It is one of the eight wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians inscribed together by UNESCO in 2008, and its simplicity and craftsmanship are deeply moving.
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Ladomirová, about halfway.
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Read the complete Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve write-up.
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Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ladomirová.
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back through Ladomirová comes up about 206 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve.
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about 244 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve. Next is back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
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back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, late in the day. Next is Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
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Read the complete Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection write-up.
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The route ends here after 337 km.
Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve → Ladomirová is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ladomirová → Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve → back through Ladomirová is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ladomirová → back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve → back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.