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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301 km from Ljubljana to Ljubljana, about 5 h 42 of riding. It goes by way of Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, City Fortress of Palmanova and back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Slovenia into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Trnovo Bridge is a modest, lovely thing that sums up Plecnik's way of working. In the 1930s, he rebuilt a small bridge over the Gradaščica stream in the Trnovo district of Ljubljana, at the foot of the hill where the church of St Francis of Assisi stands, and he made it wide, wider than the street it joined, so that it became a small square as much as a crossing. The bridge is lined with pillars and balustrades of pale stone, and he planted two rows of birch trees along its edges, a gentle, living touch in the middle of the city. The pyramids at the corners are a nod to Egyptian forms, which he used with a sense of play.
Read the complete Trnovo Bridge write-up.
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Trnovo Bridge is where the day begins. Next is Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
The water barriers of the Idrijca are among the strangest industrial monuments in Europe: massive stone and timber dams built across a narrow mountain river not to store water for drinking or power, but to float logs. Locals call them klavže, and the biggest have been nicknamed the Slovenian pyramids for their huge, carefully cut blocks. They lie in the deep, wooded gorge below the Vojsko plateau, a short ride from the town of Idrija.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
Read the complete City Fortress of Palmanova write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach City Fortress of Palmanova. Next is back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier, late in the day. Next is Trnovo Bridge.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Trnovo Bridge write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Trnovo Bridge. That is the ride.
Trnovo Bridge → Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → City Fortress of Palmanova is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City Fortress of Palmanova → back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → Trnovo Bridge is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.