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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A 322 km round trip from Tvrdošín - roughly 5 h 54 in the saddle. The stops in between: Lestiny, Hronsek, Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the and back through Hronsek. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Tvrdošín lies in Orava, the northernmost corner of Slovakia, where the Orava river has been dammed to form a long reservoir under the dark ridges of the Western Tatras and the Roháče. It is a border country, not far from Poland, and a place of wood, snow and sheep, where for centuries people built in timber. The town has a wooden church that stands among the oldest in Slovakia, the Church of All Saints, built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century in Gothic style with a steep shingled roof, and its interior is painted with scenes in a folk style that moves between the grand and the endearing. It is one of the Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, which UNESCO listed in 2008.
Read the complete Tvrdosin write-up.
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Tvrdošín is where the day begins. Next is Lestiny.
Leštiny is a small village in the Orava region of northern Slovakia, a short distance from Dolný Kubín, and its pride is a wooden Lutheran church that looks, from outside, more like a large farmhouse than a place of worship. This is one of the articular churches, built under strict conditions imposed in the late seventeenth century, and it is part of the World Heritage Site of Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed in 2008.
Read the complete Lestiny write-up.
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Leštiny comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hronsek.
The wooden church at Hronsek looks at first like a large barn with a steep shingle roof, standing among old lime trees in a village in the Hron valley. It is in fact one of the rarest kinds of building in Central Europe: an articular church, built for Lutheran worshippers in 1726 under strict conditions imposed by the Catholic Habsburg authorities. After decades of religious conflict, the Hungarian diet of 1681 allowed Protestants to build churches in certain places, but they had to be made entirely of wood, without stone foundations or metal nails, outside the village centre, with no tower, and built within a single year. The Hronsek church was constructed of spruce and larch, held together by wooden joints, and it can seat more than a thousand people. A separate wooden bell tower stands beside it. Along with other wooden churches in the region, it was listed by UNESCO in 2008.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Hronsek. Next is Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the.
Banská Štiavnica is a town built into a volcano. A great crater, the caldera of an extinct volcano, surrounds the place, and the streets climb steeply up its inner slopes, so that the whole centre is a tumble of pastel houses, churches and castles on a hillside. Silver and gold were mined here from the Middle Ages, and in the eighteenth century the town was one of the richest in the Habsburg Empire. In 1762 the mining academy was founded, one of the first technical colleges in the world, and its graduates carried mining knowledge to many countries. UNESCO listed the town in 1993, along with its technical monuments.
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Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the, about halfway. Next is back through Hronsek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hronsek write-up.
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back through Hronsek sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lestiny.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lestiny write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lestiny comes up about 282 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tvrdosin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tvrdosin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tvrdošín closes the day.
Tvrdošín → Lestiny is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leštiny → Hronsek is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hronsek → Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the → back through Hronsek is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hronsek → back through Lestiny is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Lestiny → Tvrdosin is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.