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 Novoyavorivs'k it runs 341 km to Novoyavorivs'k; allow about 6 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles, Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t and back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles. It crosses from Ukraine into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles.
Out on the flat, open country east of the San river, close to the Ukrainian border, stands a wooden church that has been watching the fields for more than four hundred years. The Church of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Chotyniec dates from the early seventeenth century and belongs to the eastern tradition of Christian building in this borderland, where Ruthenian communities worshipped in the Greek rite. It is one of the churches listed together as the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region, and it has a tall, three-part design, with a nave, a smaller chancel and a bell tower, each topped by a wooden cupola.
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Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t.
Bruno Schulz was born in Drohobych in 1892, spent most of his life here and was shot in its streets by a German officer in 1942. The writer and painter, whose strange, dreamlike stories turned this small Galician town into a place of myth, drew on the old market square, the narrow lanes and the attic rooms of a Jewish merchant family, and the town today is part of his legacy. Drohobych, with a population of nearly eighty thousand, grew rich on salt and oil, and the oil wells of nearby Boryslav gave the region the nickname of Galicia's Texas in the late nineteenth century. Ivan Franko, the great Ukrainian writer, went to school here.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t. Next is back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles write-up.
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back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles, late in the day. Next is Roztochya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roztochya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Roztochya. That is the ride.
Roztochya → Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t is 117 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t → back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → Roztochya is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.