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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Litóchoro it runs 350 km to Litóchoro; allow about 5 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of, Bronze Age settlement and Cemetery of Tumu and back through Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The gods chose well. Mount Olympus rises almost straight out of the Aegean, from sea level near Litochoro to 2,918 metres at Mytikas, its highest summit, in barely twenty kilometres, so that from the coast road it looks less like a mountain than a wall of grey rock and dark forest with clouds snagged on top. The ancient Greeks put their twelve Olympians up there, and on a stormy afternoon with thunder rolling around the peaks you can see why.
Read the complete The wider area of Mount Olympus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The wider area of Mount Olympus is where the day begins. Next is Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of.
Thessaloniki has the odd distinction of being a Roman city, a Byzantine city, an Ottoman city and a Greek city, all at once, and the churches that UNESCO listed in 1988 tell the earliest part of the story. The Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments include the Rotunda, a huge round brick building put up around AD 300 as a mausoleum for the emperor Galerius, and later converted into a church. Its walls are about six metres thick, and it stands beside the remains of Galerius's palace and triumphal arch. A minaret from the Ottoman period still rises beside it.
Read the complete Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bronze Age settlement and Cemetery of Tumu.
Vergina is a small village at the foot of the Pierian mountains in northern Greece, and for most of history nobody outside the region knew its name. That changed in 1977, when the archaeologist Manolis Andronikos opened a great burial mound here and found royal tombs with astonishing grave goods. The site is ancient Aigai, the first capital of the Macedonian kingdom, and one of the tombs is widely attributed to Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. The prehistoric settlement and the large cemetery of burial mounds nearby show that people had been living and burying their dead here for a very long time before the Macedonian kings.
Read the complete Bronze Age settlement and Cemetery of Tumu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Bronze Age settlement and Cemetery of Tumu. Next is back through Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of, late in the day. Next is The wider area of Mount Olympus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The wider area of Mount Olympus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The wider area of Mount Olympus. That is the ride.
The wider area of Mount Olympus → Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of → Bronze Age settlement and Cemetery of Tumu is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bronze Age settlement and Cemetery of Tumu → back through Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of → The wider area of Mount Olympus is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.