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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From Kronstadt it runs 189 km to Kronstadt; allow about 3 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Kronstadtsky, Peterhofskaya Road, The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag and back through Peterhofskaya Road. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For about 23 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
24 km on Peterhofskaya Road → The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Izhora is an old name for this part of the coast. Long before Saint Petersburg, the land between the Neva and the Luga belonged to the Izhorians, a small Finnic people who fished, farmed and served as pilots on the river, and whose language survives only in a few villages. Bolshaya Izhora, the Great Izhora, is a modest settlement on the shore, with a church, some dachas and a sea wall, and the nearest town of any size is Kronstadt across the water. The point on the map sits at the edge of the gulf, in reed and low scrub, where the shallows run out for hundreds of metres and the horizon is a thin line of cranes and chimneys.
Read the complete The Barrier of Pile write-up.
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The Barrier of Pile is where the day begins. Next is Kronstadtsky.
This stretch is the north shore of the Gulf of Finland, the coast that runs west from the Neva delta toward Sestroretsk and the Karelian Isthmus. The label points to the Kronstadtsky district name rather than a single monument, so think of it as a tract of seaside land, with the port town of Lisiy Nos about five kilometres away and the larger suburb of Lakhtinsky eight kilometres off. Lisiy Nos means Fox's Nose, a cape that pokes out into the gulf, and from here on a clear day you can look south across the water to the low silhouette of Kotlin Island.
Read the complete Kronstadtsky write-up.
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Kronstadtsky comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Peterhofskaya Road.
Peterhofskaya Road was once the grandest road out of St Petersburg. Running southwest from the city along the shore of the Gulf of Finland toward Strelna and Peterhof, it was lined in the eighteenth century with country estates, dachas and palaces built by the nobility, who wanted to be close to the imperial residences along the coast. Peter the Great started the trend, granting plots to courtiers along the road, and the result was a chain of estates with gardens, parks and ponds stretching for miles. Many of these estates survive in some form, and the road and its surroundings are part of the UNESCO listing of the historic centre of St Petersburg and related groups of monuments.
Read the complete Peterhofskaya Road write-up.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Peterhofskaya Road. Next is The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
The village of Taitsy, south of Saint Petersburg near Krasnoye Selo, is home to an estate built in the eighteenth century for the Demidov family, the industrial dynasty whose fortune came from iron and metalworks in the Urals. The classical manor house, attributed to the architect Ivan Starov, stands in a landscape park with ponds and springs, and those springs mattered far beyond the estate: the Taitsy water conduit, built in the eighteenth century, carried water from here to the palaces and fountains of Tsarskoye Selo.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag write-up.
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The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag, about halfway. Next is back through Peterhofskaya Road.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peterhofskaya Road write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Peterhofskaya Road sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kronstadtsky.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kronstadtsky write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kronstadtsky comes up about 165 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Barrier of Pile.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Barrier of Pile write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Barrier of Pile closes the day.
The Barrier of Pile → Kronstadtsky is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronstadtsky → Peterhofskaya Road is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peterhofskaya Road → The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → back through Peterhofskaya Road is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peterhofskaya Road → back through Kronstadtsky is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kronstadtsky → The Barrier of Pile is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.