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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448 km from Stari Grad to Stari Grad, about 10 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Historic City of Trogir, Ravanjska vrata and back through Historic City of Trogir. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Croatia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Stari Grad Plain write-up.
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Stari Grad Plain is where the day begins. Next is Historic City of Trogir.
Trogir is an island, though you barely notice it. The old town sits on a tiny islet between the mainland and the larger island of Čiovo, linked to both by short bridges, and inside its walls is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Adriatic, a UNESCO site of narrow lanes, stone palaces and churches, crammed into an area you can walk across in five minutes.
Read the complete Historic City of Trogir write-up.
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Historic City of Trogir comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ravanjska vrata.
The Kupres plateau is one of the high, open places of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than a thousand metres up, with wide grasslands, cold winters and a sky that seems close enough to touch. Ravanjska vrata, the gates of Ravno, lies in this landscape, between Kupres and Tomislavgrad, and it is known for a group of stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia, Herzegovina and the neighbouring countries. UNESCO listed a selection of these necropolises in 2016. The stones are often decorated with spirals, crosses, hunting scenes and figures with raised hands, and their makers remain a subject of debate.
Read the complete Ravanjska vrata write-up.
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about 223 km into the recorded legs you reach Ravanjska vrata. Next is back through Historic City of Trogir.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic City of Trogir write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic City of Trogir, late in the day. 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.
Back at Stari Grad Plain. That is the ride.
Stari Grad Plain → Historic City of Trogir is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic City of Trogir → Ravanjska vrata is 143 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ravanjska vrata → back through Historic City of Trogir is 146 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic City of Trogir → Stari Grad Plain is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.