CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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326 km from Stari Grad to Stari Grad, about 8 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of Historical Complex of Split with the Palac, Velika and Mala Crljivica, back through Velika and Mala Crljivica and back through Historical Complex of Split with the Palac. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
54 km on Stari Grad Plain → Historical Complex of Split with the Palac.
Hvar's best farmland is not on a hillside but on a flat, fertile plain just inland from the town of Stari Grad, and it has been laid out in the same pattern for about twenty-four centuries. Greek settlers from Paros founded a colony called Pharos here in the fourth century BC, and they divided the plain into neat rectangular plots, marked out by dry-stone walls. The walls are still there, the plots still follow the old grid, and the people who farm them today are growing grapes and olives much as their predecessors did. UNESCO listed the plain as a World Heritage site in 2008, and for once the listing is tied to something you can actually walk across.
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Stari Grad Plain is where the day begins. Next is Historical Complex of Split with the Palac.
Few cities have grown inside a palace, but Split did exactly that. Around the year 300 the Roman emperor Diocletian, born in nearby Salona, built himself a vast fortified retirement residence on the shore of the Adriatic, a rectangle of walls, towers and gates. When Salona was sacked in the seventh century, refugees moved into the palace, and over the following centuries they turned its halls and corridors into streets and houses. The result is a living old town where medieval and Renaissance homes lean on Roman walls and washing hangs between ancient columns.
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Historical Complex of Split with the Palac comes up 53 km in. Next is Velika and Mala Crljivica.
Behind the Makarska Riviera the land climbs abruptly into the grey limestone of Biokovo, and on the inland side of that range lies a high, stony plateau called the Dalmatian Zagora, a country of dry-stone walls, thin soil and scattered villages. Velika and Mala Crljivica, the Greater and Lesser Crljivica, sit in this landscape near the small town of Lovreć, about twenty-one kilometres from Omiš and a little further from Imotski, and the site is a field of old tombstones.
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107 km in you reach Velika and Mala Crljivica.
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Read the complete Historical Complex of Split with the Palac write-up.
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Historical Complex of Split with the Palac, about halfway. Next is back through Velika and Mala Crljivica.
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Read the complete Velika and Mala Crljivica write-up.
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back through Velika and Mala Crljivica sits at 213 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historical Complex of Split with the Palac.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Complex of Split with the Palac write-up.
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back through Historical Complex of Split with the Palac comes up 267 km in. Next is Stari Grad Plain.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stari Grad Plain write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Stari Grad Plain closes the day.
Stari Grad Plain → Historical Complex of Split with the Palac is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historical Complex of Split with the Palac → Velika and Mala Crljivica is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Velika and Mala Crljivica → Historical Complex of Split with the Palac is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historical Complex of Split with the Palac → back through Velika and Mala Crljivica is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Velika and Mala Crljivica → back through Historical Complex of Split with the Palac is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historical Complex of Split with the Palac → Stari Grad Plain is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.