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 Horyniec-Zdrój it runs 306 km to Horyniec-Zdrój; allow about 6 h 10 of riding. On the way it passes Roztochya, Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche and back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. It crosses from Poland into Ukraine - carry ID and check the toll rules.
In the hills of south-eastern Poland, a few kilometres from the border with Ukraine, a small wooden church stands in a green yard by the village of Radruz, beneath tall trees. It is the tserkva of Saint Paraskeva, dating from the early sixteenth century, and it is one of the finest wooden churches in the Carpathian region, inscribed by UNESCO in 2013 with fifteen others in Poland and Ukraine. The nearest settlement is Horyniec-Zdroj, a spa village of two thousand seven hundred people three kilometres away, and the larger town of Rava-Ruska lies across the border in Ukraine.
Read the complete Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
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Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is where the day begins. Next is Roztochya.
Roztochia is a low, wooded ridge that runs like a spine from southeastern Poland down to the outskirts of Lviv, and on its Ukrainian end, between Ivano-Frankove and Novoyavorivsk, lies the Roztochia nature reserve. Its old beech woods were added in 2017 to the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a chain of forests that tells the story of how beech recolonised the continent after the Ice Age. The ridge is also a watershed: rain that falls on one side ends up in the Baltic by way of the Vistula, and on the other in the Black Sea by way of the Dniester. Standing on a hilltop and knowing that is oddly satisfying.
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Roztochya comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
Zhovkva was designed as an ideal Renaissance town. In the late sixteenth century, Stanisław Żółkiewski, a Polish nobleman and military commander, founded it north of Lviv with a castle, a market square, churches and fortifications laid out according to the principles of the time. Later, the town was a favourite residence of King Jan III Sobieski, who defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683. The Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, a wooden church built in 1720, stands on the edge of the town, and it is part of the UNESCO-listed Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
Read the complete Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity write-up.
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about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. Next is Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche.
Above Lviv's old town rises a wooded hill that locals simply call the High Castle, Vysokyi Zamok, and below it, tucked against its slopes, lies Pidzamche, whose name means under the castle. For a rider used to the cobbled squares at the centre, this is the quiet back door of the city: older, scruffier and more honest. The castle itself is long gone, a victim of the sieges and demolitions of earlier centuries, and what remains are earthworks and a few fragments of wall. What you climb for is the view. From the top, some four hundred metres above sea level, the red roofs and church spires of Lviv spread out in a patchwork, and on a clear evening the light turns the whole city gold.
Read the complete Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche write-up.
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Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche, about halfway. Next is back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
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Read the complete Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity write-up.
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back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Roztochya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roztochya write-up.
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back through Roztochya comes up about 226 km into the recorded legs. Next is Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva closes the day.
Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva → Roztochya is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roztochya → Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche → back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity → back through Roztochya is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roztochya → Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.