CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 386 km round trip from Tarnowskie Góry - roughly 7 h 18 in the saddle. It goes by way of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi, Historic Centre of Kraków and back through Historic Centre of Kraków. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 39 km this is Polish Eagles Nests Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Upper Silesia is Poland's industrial heart, a densely built region of coal mines, steelworks, spoil heaps and tidy brick housing, and at its northern edge lies Tarnowskie Gory, a town of about sixty thousand people that grew up around silver, lead and zinc. The mine and its underground water system were inscribed by UNESCO in 2017, and the town's historic centre is about a kilometre from the entrance. Katowice, the regional capital, is some thirty kilometres to the south-east.
Read the complete Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and write-up.
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Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is where the day begins. Next is Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
There is no right way to arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and no ride passes through it casually. This was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, built during the occupation of Poland near the town of Oświęcim, which the Germans called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and January 1945, at least 1.1 million people were murdered here, the vast majority of them Jews deported from across Europe, along with Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and many others. On 27 January 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated the camp, and that date is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day. UNESCO listed the site in 1979 as a memorial to the victims and a warning to humanity.
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Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati comes up 50 km in. Next is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
In 1600, Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, a Polish nobleman, began to build a chapel on a hill south-west of Kraków, modelled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Over the following decades, he and his descendants added dozens of chapels and churches spread over the hills, laid out to recreate the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, with the landscape itself standing in for Jerusalem. The result, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999.
Read the complete Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi write-up.
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100 km in you reach Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. Next is Historic Centre of Kraków.
Every hour, a trumpeter plays a short melody from the taller tower of St Mary's Basilica on Kraków's market square, and every time the tune breaks off abruptly mid-phrase. Legend says it commemorates a watchman shot by a Tatar arrow in the throat as he sounded the alarm in the thirteenth century, and the hejnał has been played that way ever since, broadcast daily on Polish radio at noon. It is a fitting introduction to a city that wears its history so openly. The Rynek Główny, the main square, is one of the largest medieval squares in Europe, with the Renaissance Cloth Hall in the middle, and the historic centre, including Wawel Hill and the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, was among the first sites ever placed on the UNESCO list in 1978.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Kraków write-up.
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Historic Centre of Kraków, about halfway.
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Read the complete Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi write-up.
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Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi sits at 200 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Kraków.
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back through Historic Centre of Kraków comes up 250 km in. Next is back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
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300 km in you reach back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. Next is back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
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back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, late in the day. Next is Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
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The route ends here after 386 km.
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → Historic Centre of Kraków is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Kraków → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → back through Historic Centre of Kraków is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of Kraków → back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.