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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349 km from Acre to Acre, about 5 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of, Sebastia, White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme and back through Sebastia. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Acre's citadel has been a prison for much of its life, and the word on the label points to it. The great vaulted fortress in the north-west corner of the old city was built by the Ottomans on the foundations of the Hospitaller halls, and in the nineteenth century it became a feared jail for political prisoners. Bahá'u'lláh was held here in the late 1860s with his family and followers, in crowded and miserable conditions, before being moved to a house in the town. Later, under the British Mandate, the same building held Jewish underground fighters, and a dramatic break-out in 1947 became one of the best-known episodes of that period. Part of the complex is now a museum, and the rooms are open to the public on set hours.
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Prison is where the day begins. Next is Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
In the second century AD, after the failed revolts against Rome, the centre of Jewish life moved to Galilee, and the Sanhedrin, the supreme rabbinical council, settled for a time at Bet She'arim, on a hill at the western edge of the Jezreel valley. Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, the patriarch who compiled the Mishnah, the first great codification of Jewish law, lived here, and when he was buried in the necropolis, Jews from all over the diaspora wanted to be buried near him. The result is a vast network of catacombs carved into the soft limestone, listed by UNESCO in 2015.
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Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sebastia.
Sebastia, Sabastiya in Arabic, is a Palestinian village on a hill north-west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, surrounded by olive groves and terraced hillsides. It stands on the site of Samaria, the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the ninth and eighth centuries BC, later rebuilt by Herod the Great, who named it Sebaste in honour of the Emperor Augustus. The ruins on the hilltop above the village span a thousand years of history.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Sebastia. Next is White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme.
White walls, rounded balconies, ribbon windows and flat roofs: walking through central Tel Aviv you are surrounded by one of the largest collections of buildings in the International Style anywhere in the world. Several thousand were built in the 1930s and 1940s, many by architects who had trained in Europe, some at the Bauhaus, and who adapted the modernist ideas to the Mediterranean climate with balconies for shade and raised ground floors for air. The White City, as it is called, became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The plan of the city itself was drawn up by the Scottish urbanist Patrick Geddes in the 1920s, with tree lined boulevards and green squares.
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White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme, about halfway. Next is back through Sebastia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Sebastia sits at 212 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 314 km into the recorded legs. Next is Prison.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Prison closes the day.
Prison → Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Sebastia is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → back through Sebastia is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sebastia → back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Prison is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.