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 Muszyna it runs 256 km to Muszyna; allow about 5 h 48 of riding. On the way it passes Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i, Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Vi and back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska. The line favours views over speed.
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 about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska.
The church of St Michael the Archangel in Binarowa looks, from the outside, like a simple barn with a tower: dark shingled walls, a steep roof and a small onion-topped belfry. Step inside and the walls and ceiling explode with colour, covered with painted decoration of saints, scenes from the Bible and floral patterns, some of them centuries old. Built around 1500 of larch and fir, without nails in the traditional joinery, it is one of the Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic churches inscribed as a World Heritage site. The local story is that it was built from timber left over from another church, but whatever its origins, the result is one of the finest wooden interiors in Poland.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska. Next is Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Vi.
Haczów, a village in the foothills of the Carpathians in southeastern Poland, has a church that is considered the largest Gothic wooden church in Europe, and one of the oldest. Built in the fifteenth century, probably on the site of an earlier church, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Michael the Archangel is a massive structure of larch logs, with a steep shingled roof and a bell tower, standing among old trees. Inside, the walls are covered with polychrome paintings, the oldest from the late fifteenth century, showing saints, biblical scenes and decorative patterns, and the atmosphere is dim, warm and fragrant with old wood. In 2003 the church was listed by UNESCO among the Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, along with five others in the region. It is still used for worship, so check visiting times and dress respectfully.
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Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Vi, about halfway. Next is back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska.
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back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska sits at 172 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i.
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back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i comes up about 232 km into the recorded legs. Next is Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less.
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Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less closes the day.
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 → Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska → Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Vi is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Vi → back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska → back through Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region i is 38 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.