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 Tomislavgrad it runs 310 km to Tomislavgrad; allow about 5 h 25 of riding. It goes by way of Velika and Mala Crljivica, Historic City of Trogir and back through Velika and Mala Crljivica. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Croatia - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 75 km this is Adriatic Highway, Jadranska Magistrala, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Kupres plateau is one of the high, open places of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than a thousand metres up, with wide grasslands, cold winters and a sky that seems close enough to touch. Ravanjska vrata, the gates of Ravno, lies in this landscape, between Kupres and Tomislavgrad, and it is known for a group of stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia, Herzegovina and the neighbouring countries. UNESCO listed a selection of these necropolises in 2016. The stones are often decorated with spirals, crosses, hunting scenes and figures with raised hands, and their makers remain a subject of debate.
Read the complete Ravanjska vrata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Ravanjska vrata is where the day begins. Next is Velika and Mala Crljivica.
Behind the Makarska Riviera the land climbs abruptly into the grey limestone of Biokovo, and on the inland side of that range lies a high, stony plateau called the Dalmatian Zagora, a country of dry-stone walls, thin soil and scattered villages. Velika and Mala Crljivica, the Greater and Lesser Crljivica, sit in this landscape near the small town of Lovreć, about twenty-one kilometres from Omiš and a little further from Imotski, and the site is a field of old tombstones.
Read the complete Velika and Mala Crljivica write-up.
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Velika and Mala Crljivica comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic City of Trogir.
Trogir is an island, though you barely notice it. The old town sits on a tiny islet between the mainland and the larger island of Čiovo, linked to both by short bridges, and inside its walls is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Adriatic, a UNESCO site of narrow lanes, stone palaces and churches, crammed into an area you can walk across in five minutes.
Read the complete Historic City of Trogir write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic City of Trogir. Next is back through Velika and Mala Crljivica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Velika and Mala Crljivica write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Velika and Mala Crljivica, late in the day. Next is Ravanjska vrata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ravanjska vrata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ravanjska vrata. That is the ride.
Ravanjska vrata → Velika and Mala Crljivica is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Velika and Mala Crljivica → Historic City of Trogir is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic City of Trogir → back through Velika and Mala Crljivica is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Velika and Mala Crljivica → Ravanjska vrata is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.