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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A 539 km round trip from Potelych - roughly 10 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: Roztochya, Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva and Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles. It crosses from Ukraine into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
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Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is where the day begins. 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.
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Roztochya comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. Next is Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
In the hills of south-eastern Poland, a few kilometres from the border with Ukraine, a small wooden church stands in a green yard by the village of Radruz, beneath tall trees. It is the tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, dating from the early sixteenth century, and it is one of the finest wooden churches in the Carpathian region, inscribed by UNESCO in 2013 with fifteen others in Poland and Ukraine. The nearest settlement is Horyniec-Zdroj, a spa village of two thousand seven hundred people three kilometres away, and the larger town of Rava-Ruska lies across the border in Ukraine.
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Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, about halfway. Next is Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles.
Out on the flat, open country east of the San river, close to the Ukrainian border, stands a wooden church that has been watching the fields for more than four hundred years. The Church of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Chotyniec dates from the early seventeenth century and belongs to the eastern tradition of Christian building in this borderland, where Ruthenian communities worshipped in the Greek rite. It is one of the churches listed together as the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region, and it has a tall, three-part design, with a nave, a smaller chancel and a bell tower, each topped by a wooden cupola.
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Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles sits at 184 km, about halfway. Next is back through Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
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back through Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva comes up about 332 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
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about 445 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. Next is back through Roztochya.
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back through Roztochya, late in the day. Next is Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
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The route ends here after 539 km.
Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Roztochya is 50 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 → Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → back through Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 113 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.