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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A 299 km round trip from Ljubljana - roughly 5 h 42 in the saddle. On the way it passes Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, City Fortress of Palmanova and back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Slovenia into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the middle of Ljubljana, on Mirje street, a long stretch of reconstructed wall recalls the Roman town of Emona. The Romans founded Emona in the early first century AD, on a grid of streets beside the Ljubljanica river, as a frontier outpost and trading town on the road between Italy and the Danube. It had walls, gates, forums, baths and a population of several thousand. Later, the town was sacked by Huns and other invaders, and its stones were reused for centuries, so that very little survived above ground.
Read the complete Roman Walls in Mirje write-up.
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Roman Walls in Mirje is where the day begins. Next is Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
The water barriers of the Idrijca are among the strangest industrial monuments in Europe: massive stone and timber dams built across a narrow mountain river not to store water for drinking or power, but to float logs. Locals call them klavže, and the biggest have been nicknamed the Slovenian pyramids for their huge, carefully cut blocks. They lie in the deep, wooded gorge below the Vojsko plateau, a short ride from the town of Idrija.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
Read the complete City Fortress of Palmanova write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach City Fortress of Palmanova. Next is back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, late in the day. Next is Roman Walls in Mirje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roman Walls in Mirje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Roman Walls in Mirje. That is the ride.
Roman Walls in Mirje → Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → City Fortress of Palmanova is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City Fortress of Palmanova → back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → Roman Walls in Mirje is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.