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 Divača it runs 411 km to Divača; allow about 6 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba, Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili and back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba. It crosses Slovenia, Italy and Croatia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Underneath the sleepy stone villages of the Slovenian Karst, a river called the Reka plunges into the earth and carves one of the largest underground canyons known anywhere. The Škocjan Caves, a UNESCO site since 1986, are the reason the word karst became the scientific name for this kind of limestone landscape everywhere in the world. Inside, a narrow footbridge spans the Reka gorge far above the roaring water, the chamber walls disappear into darkness, and the scale is so huge that your mind struggles to accept it is all underground.
Read the complete Škocjan Caves write-up.
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Škocjan Caves is where the day begins. Next is Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
Aquileia today is a village of fewer than three thousand people in the flat farmland of Friuli, near the head of the Adriatic, but two thousand years ago it was one of the largest and richest cities of the Roman Empire. Founded as a Latin colony in 181 BC to guard the northeastern approaches to Italy, it grew into a great trading port, connected to the sea by a river and a canal, through which amber, wine, oil and glass moved between the Mediterranean and the lands beyond the Alps. Attila sacked it in 452, and many of its people fled to the lagoons, where their descendants helped found Venice and Grado.
Read the complete Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba write-up.
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Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili.
Poreč sits on a little limestone peninsula on the western coast of Istria, and the old town still follows the grid the Romans laid down, with the Decumanus running straight down the middle. The Euphrasian Basilica is tucked a few lanes from the main street, behind a quiet atrium, and it is easy to walk past if you are looking for something grand from the outside. Inside is the reason it earned its UNESCO listing: a sixth-century church, built under Bishop Euphrasius, that kept its Byzantine mosaics through a millennium and a half of earthquakes, Venetian rule and tourism.
Read the complete Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili write-up.
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about 207 km into the recorded legs you reach Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili. Next is back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba, late in the day. Next is Škocjan Caves.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Škocjan Caves write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Škocjan Caves. That is the ride.
Škocjan Caves → Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba → Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili is 134 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basili → back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba is 133 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Ba → Škocjan Caves is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.