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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From Paimio it runs 394 km to Paimio; allow about 6 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, Old Rauma, back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki and back through Old Rauma. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
In the early 1930s, Finland needed a hospital for tuberculosis, and the architect Alvar Aalto won the competition to design it. The Paimio Sanatorium, finished in 1933, is one of the landmarks of modern architecture, a white, functionalist building set among pines on a ridge, in which every detail was designed to help the patient recover. Rooms faced south to catch the sun, windows were large, floors were coloured to calm the eye, and basins were shaped to make noise as little as possible so that the person in the next bed would not be disturbed. Aalto thought of the building as a medical instrument.
Read the complete Paimio Sanatorium write-up.
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Paimio Sanatorium is where the day begins. Next is Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki.
In the countryside of Satakunta, west Finland, a low forested ridge hides thirty-odd heaps of stone laid down more than three thousand years ago. Sammallahdenmäki is a Bronze Age burial site, with granite cairns up to several metres across, built by people who lived along what was then the coast. When these cairns were raised, the sea lapped nearby. Since then the land has been rising, still lifting after the weight of the ice sheet, and the shore has retreated kilometres, leaving the graves stranded on the hill among spruce and pine. UNESCO added the site to its list in 1999.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
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Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki comes up about 128 km into the recorded legs. Next is Old Rauma.
Rauma smells of tar, sea air and woodsmoke, or at least it does in the old quarter, where over six hundred wooden houses crowd along narrow streets that have changed little in layout since the Middle Ages. Old Rauma is the largest unified wooden town in the Nordic countries, and it was added to the World Heritage list in 1991. The houses are low, painted in ochres, reds and soft greens, with tidy yards, carved doors and little cobbled lanes, and many of them are still lived in, which gives the place a lived-in rather than museum feel.
Read the complete Old Rauma write-up.
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At least about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Old Rauma. Next is Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, about halfway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Rauma write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Old Rauma sits at 179 km, about halfway. Next is back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki comes up about 220 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Old Rauma.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Rauma write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 243 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Old Rauma. Next is back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, late in the day. Next is Paimio Sanatorium.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paimio Sanatorium write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 394 km.
Paimio Sanatorium → Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 128 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki → Old Rauma is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old Rauma → Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old Rauma → back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki → back through Old Rauma is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Old Rauma → back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki → Paimio Sanatorium is 129 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.