Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and and Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the
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Recorded distance
460 km
Riding-time estimate
7 h 58
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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From Tarnowskie Góry it runs 460 km to Tarnowskie Góry; allow about 7 h 58 of riding. The stops in between: Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi, Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the and back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and
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.
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Planning note
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is where the day begins. Next is Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
2. 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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Planning note
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi.
3. 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.
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Planning note
about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi. Next is Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the.
4. Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the
The Church of All Saints in Tvrdošín, at the edge of the town in the Orava valley, is a wooden Gothic church from the fifteenth century, built of larch and fir, with a shingled roof, a tower with a distinctive spire and a painted interior, and it is one of the oldest of the wooden churches listed as a World Heritage Site in Slovakia. Its Renaissance and Baroque decorations, including a carved altar and paintings, were added over the centuries.
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Planning note
back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi sits at 271 km, about halfway. Next is back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
6. back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati
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Planning note
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati comes up about 380 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
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Planning note
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and closes the day.
Leg by leg
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and to Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi to Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the to back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi to back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati
back through Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Archi → back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati to Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.