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From Muszyna it runs 249 km to Muszyna; allow about 6 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i, Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection, Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the and Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i.
In a narrow valley in the Low Beskids, close to the Slovak border in south-eastern Poland, stands the wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Kwiatoń, often called the most beautiful of the Lemko churches. Built in the seventeenth century by the Lemkos, an East Slavic highland people who lived in these hills for centuries, it is one of the sixteen wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine that UNESCO listed in 2013. Its silhouette is unmistakable: three towers rising in steps toward the west, each topped with onion-shaped domes and crosses, the walls covered in wooden shingles that have weathered to silver-grey.
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Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i comes up 21 km in. Next is Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
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.
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42 km in you reach Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection. Next is Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the.
Three small wooden churches in the Beskid Niski could tell you more about the Lemko people than a library. Brunary Wyzne is a village in the Low Beskids of southern Poland, not far from the Slovak border, and its church of St Michael the Archangel, built at the end of the eighteenth century, stands at the edge of the settlement with a shingled tower and the typical three-part structure of the Lemko tradition. Inside, the painted iconostasis separates the nave from the sanctuary, as in all Eastern Christian churches, and the walls are dark with age. The church is part of the group of wooden churches of the Carpathian region on the World Heritage list, inscribed in 2013.
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Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the, about halfway. Next is Church of St Philip and St James the Apost.
The wooden church in Sękowa is small, dark and quietly astonishing. It stands on a slope in the Beskid Niski, the low and thickly wooded mountains of south-eastern Poland, and dates from the early sixteenth century, with a steep shingled roof, a tower with a pointed top and a gallery running around the walls. The timber has gone almost black with age, and inside the walls and ceiling are painted with colourful flowers, figures and scenes of faith from the seventeenth century. It is one of the wooden churches of southern Małopolska listed by UNESCO in 2003, and unlike a museum piece, it is still used for services.
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Church of St Philip and St James the Apost sits at 83 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the.
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back through Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the comes up 104 km in. Next is back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
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125 km in you reach back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection. Next is back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i.
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back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i, late in the day. Next is Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
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The route ends here after 249 km.
Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less → Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i → Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the → Church of St Philip and St James the Apost is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of St Philip and St James the Apost → back through Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the → back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i → Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.