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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555 km from Lutowiska to Lutowiska, about 10 h 10 of riding. The stops in between: Ruská Bystrá, Ungvári Wine Cellar and back through Ruská Bystrá. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 179 km this is Bieszczady Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
In the Bieszczady mountains of south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine, a wooden church stands on a gentle rise above the San valley at Smolnik. It is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel and built in the style of the Boyko people, with three log sections stepping up from east to west under shingled roofs. Since 2013 it has been part of the World Heritage Site of Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine.
Read the complete Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa write-up.
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Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa is where the day begins. Next is Ruská Bystrá.
Hidden in a fold of the Vihorlat hills near the Ukrainian border, the little village of Ruská Bystrá has a wooden church built in the early eighteenth century, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, with a tower and a roof of wooden shingles and an iconostasis of painted icons inside. It is one of the Greek Catholic churches included in the World Heritage listing of the Wooden Churches of the Slovak Part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed in 2008, along with Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches across the country.
Read the complete Ruská Bystrá write-up.
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Ruská Bystrá comes up about 179 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ungvári Wine Cellar.
Sátoraljaújhely is a town split in two by a river and a border. The Ronyva stream divides it into a Hungarian half and a Slovak half, Slovenské Nové Mesto, and the line became a national frontier after the First World War, when streets and gardens were cut in two. Today the border is open and easy to cross, and a pleasant walk takes you from one country to the other along the bank. The town sits at the northern tip of the Tokaj wine region, where the Zemplén hills fall to the plain, and it is a good starting point for exploring that country.
Read the complete Ungvári Wine Cellar write-up.
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about 281 km into the recorded legs you reach Ungvári Wine Cellar. Next is back through Ruská Bystrá.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ruská Bystrá write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ruská Bystrá, late in the day. Next is Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa. That is the ride.
Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa → Ruská Bystrá is 179 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ruská Bystrá → Ungvári Wine Cellar is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ungvári Wine Cellar → back through Ruská Bystrá is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ruská Bystrá → Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa is 179 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.