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 Bochnia it runs 332 km to Bochnia; allow about 4 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi, Church of the Archangel Michael and back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
People were mining salt at Bochnia by the middle of the thirteenth century, which makes it the oldest salt mine in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe still open to visitors. For centuries the salt from here and from Wieliczka, about twenty-five kilometres to the west, filled the coffers of the Polish kings; at times it accounted for a remarkable share of the royal income. Together the two mines and the royal castle at Wieliczka form a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Salt Mine in Bochnia is where the day begins. Next is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
In 1600, Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, a Polish nobleman, began to build a chapel on a hill south-west of Kraków, modelled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Over the following decades, he and his descendants added dozens of chapels and churches spread over the hills, laid out to recreate the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, with the landscape itself standing in for Jerusalem. The result, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999.
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Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of the Archangel Michael.
From the outside, the church in Dębno Podhalańskie looks like a sturdy wooden barn with a steep shingled roof and a squat tower, the kind of building you might ride past without a second glance. Step inside and the walls explode with colour: every surface covered in stencilled and painted patterns, animals, plants and geometric figures, dating back to around 1500, one of the best-preserved medieval painted interiors in Poland. The church, built of larch in the late fifteenth century, is part of the UNESCO listing of Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, a group of Gothic timber churches that show the skill of local carpenters who built without nails.
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about 166 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of the Archangel Michael. Next is back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi write-up.
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back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi, late in the day. Next is Salt Mine in Bochnia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salt Mine in Bochnia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Salt Mine in Bochnia. That is the ride.
Salt Mine in Bochnia → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → Church of the Archangel Michael is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of the Archangel Michael → back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → Salt Mine in Bochnia is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.