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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A 435 km round trip from Novi Pazar - roughly 8 h 48 in the saddle. On the way it passes Studenica Monastery, Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi, back through Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi and back through Studenica Monastery. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Sopoćani is one of the quietest and most beautiful monasteries in Serbia, and you may well be the only person in the church. It stands in a green valley a few kilometres west of Novi Pazar, near the springs of the Raška river, in a region that was the heartland of the early Serbian kingdom. King Stefan Uroš I founded it in the 1250s, and he is buried here, and the church was decorated with frescoes between about 1260 and 1270, painted by artists whose name we do not know but whose command of colour and space put them in the first rank of medieval European painting. UNESCO listed Sopoćani together with the nearby Old Ras in 1979.
Read the complete Sopoćani Monastery write-up.
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Sopoćani Monastery is where the day begins. Next is Studenica Monastery.
The monastery of Studenica lies in a green gorge of the Golija mountains in central Serbia, where a clear river runs down through beech and oak woods toward the Ibar. Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the medieval Serbian state, began building it in the 1190s, and it became the model for all the monasteries that followed. Nemanja himself abdicated in 1196 and later became a monk, dying on Mount Athos in 1199. His son, Saint Sava, brought his father's remains back here, and they rest in the church today.
Read the complete Studenica Monastery write-up.
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Studenica Monastery comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi.
Đurđevi stupovi, the Pillars of Saint George, crowns a hill above Novi Pazar, a small church of Saint George with a dome and towers that give the monastery its name. Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the Serbian dynasty that dominated the Balkans for two centuries, built it in the later twelfth century, and it was one of the first great foundations of his rule. The painting inside is Byzantine in style, and the cluster of dome and towers on the hilltop makes a strong silhouette.
Read the complete Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Studenica Monastery write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Studenica Monastery, about halfway. Next is back through Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi write-up.
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back through Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Studenica Monastery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Studenica Monastery write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Studenica Monastery comes up about 355 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sopoćani Monastery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sopoćani Monastery write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sopoćani Monastery closes the day.
Sopoćani Monastery → Studenica Monastery is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Studenica Monastery → Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi → Studenica Monastery is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Studenica Monastery → back through Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi → back through Studenica Monastery is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Studenica Monastery → Sopoćani Monastery is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.