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 Stolac it runs 514 km to Stolac; allow about 10 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of Bijača, Kalufi in Krekovi, Gvozno and Kučarin in Hrančići. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Above the Bregava river valley, a few kilometres from Stolac in Herzegovina, a hillside is covered with huge stone slabs that look like sarcophagi and tilting boxes. These are stećci, medieval tombstones that were carved in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Radimlja is the best known cemetery of them. Over a hundred of them stand here, and several carry reliefs of exceptional quality, showing hunting scenes, riders with spears, dancing in a circle, stylised crescent moons, spirals and vines. In 2016 UNESCO listed a group of these sites together.
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Radimlja is where the day begins. Next is Bijača.
In western Herzegovina, near the town of Ljubuški and close to the Croatian border, the land is a mix of karst hills, fertile valleys and vineyards, baked by the sun and scented with sage and fig. Near the village of Bijača, the necropolis of stećci, the medieval tombstones that are unique to this region, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, spread across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. The tombstones, carved with crosses, spirals, figures and inscriptions, stand among the grass and stones, a silent reminder of the people who lived here centuries ago.
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Bijača comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
The Nevesinjsko polje is a broad, flat-floored basin high in the karst of eastern Herzegovina, ringed by bare limestone hills, and at Krekovi, near its edge, a group of stećci known as Kalufi stands in the grass. These medieval tombstones, carved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, belong to the transnational World Heritage Site inscribed in 2016. At Krekovi you find slabs, chests and gabled forms, some decorated with crosses, rosettes and borders, set in rows facing roughly east to west in the old tradition.
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about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is Gvozno.
Out on the high karst plateau around Kalinovik, south of Sarajevo, the land opens into wide pastures and rocky hills at well over a thousand metres, ringed by the mountains of Treskavica, Lelija and Zelengora. Here and there, half-hidden in the grass, lie stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this corner of the Balkans. The necropolis at Gvozno is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, which spans Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Gvozno, about halfway. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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Kučarin in Hrančići sits at 193 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gvozno.
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back through Gvozno comes up about 332 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kalufi in Krekovi.
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about 389 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is back through Bijača.
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back through Bijača, late in the day. Next is Radimlja.
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The route ends here after 514 km.
Radimlja → Bijača is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bijača → Kalufi in Krekovi is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalufi in Krekovi → Gvozno is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → Kučarin in Hrančići is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Gvozno is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gvozno → back through Kalufi in Krekovi is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalufi in Krekovi → back through Bijača is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bijača → Radimlja is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.