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 Ljubljana it runs 349 km to Ljubljana; allow about 6 h 26 of riding. The stops in between: Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa, City Fortress of Palmanova and back through Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Slovenia into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
It is the city's central burial ground, laid out on the eastern edge of town, and in the late 1930s the architect Joze Plecnik added a series of chapels, arcades and entrance structures that turn it into a quiet landscape of white walls, columns and calm courtyards. He called it the Garden of All Saints, and the name fits. Plecnik was Slovenia's great architect of the twentieth century, a man who also shaped the bridges, markets and riverbanks of Ljubljana, and his works in the city were added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
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Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints is where the day begins. Next is Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa.
Idrija is a small town in a narrow valley in western Slovenia, and for five hundred years it was one of the richest places in Europe, because under it lay mercury. The ore was found in 1490, and the mine became the second biggest in the world, after Almaden in Spain, and employed generations of miners. The two together were listed as a World Heritage site in 2012. Mercury was vital for extracting gold and silver, and for mirrors, medicines and later industry, and the Habsburg emperors treasured Idrija. The miners' wives and daughters made lace to earn money, and Idrija lace is still made today, taught in a school, and a local pride.
Read the complete Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa write-up.
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Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
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about 173 km into the recorded legs you reach City Fortress of Palmanova. Next is back through Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa, late in the day. Next is Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints. That is the ride.
Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints → Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa → City Fortress of Palmanova is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
City Fortress of Palmanova → back through Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Gorenja Kanomilja - Kanomilja or Ovcjak Wa → Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.