CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Rohatyn it runs 341 km to Rohatyn; allow about 7 h 00 of riding. It goes by way of L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr, Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity, Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche and Roztochya. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Local tradition says that Roksolana, the girl who became the wife of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, was born in Rohatyn. Whether or not that is true, the town in the Galician foothills of western Ukraine has been telling the story for centuries, and a statue and a museum keep it alive. Rohatyn sits on the small river Hnyla Lypa, east of the Carpathians, in a country of low hills, orchards and wheat fields, and its pride is a small wooden church dedicated to the Descent of the Holy Spirit, built in the late sixteenth century and still standing near the old market square.
Read the complete Rohatyn-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy write-up.
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Rohatyn-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy is where the day begins. Next is L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr.
Few city centres in Europe have had as many names as this one. Lviv to Ukrainians, Lwow to the Poles who ruled it for centuries, Lemberg to the Habsburg officials who governed Galicia, and Lvov to the Soviets, it is a city that was built by many hands and still shows every one of them. The old town, a UNESCO listing, is a dense tangle of streets around the Rynok, the market square, where the houses are tall, narrow and ornamented with carved stone, each with its own character and its own story.
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L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr comes up about 73 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.
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about 102 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.
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Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche, about halfway. 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 sits at 192 km, about halfway. Next is back through Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche.
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back through Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche comes up about 209 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity.
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about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity. Next is back through L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr, late in the day. Next is Rohatyn-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy.
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Read the complete Rohatyn-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy write-up.
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The route ends here after 341 km.
Rohatyn-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy → L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr → Zhovkva-Tserkva of the Holy Trinity is 29 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 → Roztochya is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roztochya → back through Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centr → Rohatyn-Tserkva of the Descent of the Holy is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.