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 Ligourión it runs 536 km to Ligourión; allow about 10 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns, Monasteries of Daphni and back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Drop a coin in the centre of the orchestra at Epidaurus and people sitting in the top row, fifty-odd rows above, will hear it. The theatre of the sanctuary of Asklepios, built in the fourth century BC, is famous for its acoustics and its almost perfect state of preservation, and it still hosts performances of ancient drama during the summer festival. But the theatre was only part of the sanctuary. Epidaurus was the most famous healing centre of the ancient Greek world, where the sick came to sleep in the sacred buildings and hope that the god Asklepios would visit them in a dream with a cure.
Read the complete Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus write-up.
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Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus is where the day begins. Next is Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns.
The plain of Argos is a wide, flat basin of orange groves and olive trees tucked into the Peloponnese, and on its edge, a few kilometres apart, stand the two strongholds that gave the Greek Bronze Age its name. Mycenae sits on a rocky spur between two ravines, with Argos eleven kilometres to the south-west and the sea beyond, and Tiryns lies lower down near the shore, on a low rocky mound that once stood by the water.
Read the complete Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns write-up.
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Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monasteries of Daphni.
The real Daphni monastery is a Byzantine church of the eleventh century on the western edge of Athens, along the old Sacred Way to Eleusis, and it is a UNESCO site together with Hosios Loukas, which lies only a few kilometres from this point.
Read the complete Monasteries of Daphni write-up.
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about 267 km into the recorded legs you reach Monasteries of Daphni. Next is back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns, late in the day. Next is Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus. That is the ride.
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus → Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns → Monasteries of Daphni is 222 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Monasteries of Daphni → back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns is 224 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns → Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.