CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 335 km round trip from Průhonice - roughly 6 h 16 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th, Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer, Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at and back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer. The line favours views over speed.
Průhonice is a village on the south-eastern edge of Prague, close enough to the capital that you can hear the city's hum, and yet its park feels like a separate country. The park was shaped from the 1880s by Count Arnošt Emanuel Silva-Tarouca, a passionate plantsman who worked with the landscape designer Adolf Vaněk to create a naturalistic landscape of lakes, meadows and woodland. He collected trees and shrubs from across the temperate world, and the park is especially known for its rhododendrons, which bloom in a riot of colour around May.
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Průhonice Park is where the day begins. Next is Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th.
Silver made Kutná Hora. In the late thirteenth century rich veins were found in the hills here, and within a few decades this small town east of Prague had become one of the richest places in medieval Europe. The Bohemian kings minted their silver groschen here, in the building known as the Italian Court, and it was money from these mines that helped finance the reign of Wenceslas II and later Charles IV. The result is a town that has a cathedral's worth of ambition packed into a small hillside setting.
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Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th comes up 60 km in. Next is Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer.
Kladruby nad Labem is a horse village in the flat country of the Elbe valley in eastern Bohemia, and its stud farm is among the oldest in the world. It was founded in the sixteenth century to breed carriage horses for the Habsburg court, and the Kladruber, a large, elegant horse that is usually white or black, is still bred here. The landscape, with its stables, riding grounds, pastures, avenues of trees and farm buildings laid out as a single working system, was added to the UNESCO list in 2019 as a cultural landscape.
Read the complete Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer write-up.
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120 km in you reach Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer. Next is Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at.
On a low wooded rise called Zelená hora, Green Mountain, just outside Žďár nad Sázavou, stands one of the strangest and most beautiful churches in Central Europe. The architect was Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel, a Prague builder of Italian descent who loved to mix Gothic forms with Baroque drama, and here he built a pilgrimage church to St John of Nepomuk in the 1720s, shortly before the saint was even canonised. Everything in it plays on the number five: a star-shaped ground plan, five gates, five altars, five-pointed geometry repeated in the cloister around it. The reason is the legend that five stars appeared over the Vltava when John's body was thrown into the river in Prague, and the saint's tongue, said to have been found uncorrupted, is the other motif you will spot once you know to look for it. UNESCO listed it in 1994.
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Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at, about halfway. Next is back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer.
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Read the complete Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer write-up.
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back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer sits at 240 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th write-up.
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back through Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th comes up 300 km in. Next is Průhonice Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Průhonice Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Průhonice Park closes the day.
Průhonice Park → Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th → Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer → Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at → back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Landscape for Breeding and Training of Cer → back through Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with th → Průhonice Park is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.