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 366 km round trip from Potelych - roughly 6 h 25 in the saddle. On the way it passes Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles, Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t and back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles. It crosses from Ukraine into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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 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 comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t.
Bruno Schulz was born in Drohobych in 1892, spent most of his life here and was shot in its streets by a German officer in 1942. The writer and painter, whose strange, dreamlike stories turned this small Galician town into a place of myth, drew on the old market square, the narrow lanes and the attic rooms of a Jewish merchant family, and the town today is part of his legacy. Drohobych, with a population of nearly eighty thousand, grew rich on salt and oil, and the oil wells of nearby Boryslav gave the region the nickname of Galicia's Texas in the late nineteenth century. Ivan Franko, the great Ukrainian writer, went to school here.
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about 183 km into the recorded legs you reach Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t. Next is back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles write-up.
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back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles, late in the day. Next is Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol. That is the ride.
Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t → back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.