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 394 km round trip from Cista Provo - roughly 7 h 03 in the saddle. The stops in between: Ravanjska vrata, Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar and back through Ravanjska vrata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Croatia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Behind the Makarska Riviera the land climbs abruptly into the grey limestone of Biokovo, and on the inland side of that range lies a high, stony plateau called the Dalmatian Zagora, a country of dry-stone walls, thin soil and scattered villages. Velika and Mala Crljivica, the Greater and Lesser Crljivica, sit in this landscape near the small town of Lovreć, about twenty-one kilometres from Omiš and a little further from Imotski, and the site is a field of old tombstones.
Read the complete Velika and Mala Crljivica write-up.
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Velika and Mala Crljivica is where the day begins. Next is Ravanjska vrata.
The Kupres plateau is one of the high, open places of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than a thousand metres up, with wide grasslands, cold winters and a sky that seems close enough to touch. Ravanjska vrata, the gates of Ravno, lies in this landscape, between Kupres and Tomislavgrad, and it is known for a group of stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia, Herzegovina and the neighbouring countries. UNESCO listed a selection of these necropolises in 2016. The stones are often decorated with spirals, crosses, hunting scenes and figures with raised hands, and their makers remain a subject of debate.
Read the complete Ravanjska vrata write-up.
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Ravanjska vrata comes up about 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar.
The Old Bridge in Mostar is a single stone arch, slender and impossibly high, leaping across the emerald-green Neretva between two fortified towers. The Ottomans built it in the 1560s, designed by an architect named Mimar Hayruddin, and for more than four centuries it stood as a symbol of the city. On 9 November 1993, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was shelled and collapsed into the river. It was rebuilt with the original techniques and stone recovered from the riverbed and reopened in 2004, and the following year UNESCO listed the Old Bridge Area as a symbol of reconciliation and cultural coexistence.
Read the complete Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar. Next is back through Ravanjska vrata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ravanjska vrata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ravanjska vrata, late in the day. Next is Velika and Mala Crljivica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Velika and Mala Crljivica write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Velika and Mala Crljivica. That is the ride.
Velika and Mala Crljivica → Ravanjska vrata is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ravanjska vrata → Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar → back through Ravanjska vrata is 114 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ravanjska vrata → Velika and Mala Crljivica is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.