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 Noormarkku it runs 261 km to Noormarkku; allow about 4 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, Old Rauma, back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki and back through Old Rauma. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Villa Mairea stands in a pine wood at Noormarkku, in western Finland, and it is among the masterpieces of Alvar Aalto. He designed it in 1938 and 1939 for Harry and Maire Gullichsen, a wealthy industrial family who owned the Ahlstrom company, a large Finnish timber and engineering business, and who wanted a house that would be a laboratory for modern living. Aalto gave them a house that is white, curved and warm, with materials, wood, stone, brick and cane, mixed in a free and surprising manner. The living room opens through large glass doors to a garden, a sauna and a swimming pool shaped like a kidney, and the interior flows from room to room.
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Villa Mairea is where the day begins. Next is Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki.
In the countryside of Satakunta, west Finland, a low forested ridge hides thirty-odd heaps of stone laid down more than three thousand years ago. Sammallahdenmäki is a Bronze Age burial site, with granite cairns up to several metres across, built by people who lived along what was then the coast. When these cairns were raised, the sea lapped nearby. Since then the land has been rising, still lifting after the weight of the ice sheet, and the shore has retreated kilometres, leaving the graves stranded on the hill among spruce and pine. UNESCO added the site to its list in 1999.
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Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Old Rauma.
Rauma smells of tar, sea air and woodsmoke, or at least it does in the old quarter, where over six hundred wooden houses crowd along narrow streets that have changed little in layout since the Middle Ages. Old Rauma is the largest unified wooden town in the Nordic countries, and it was added to the World Heritage list in 1991. The houses are low, painted in ochres, reds and soft greens, with tidy yards, carved doors and little cobbled lanes, and many of them are still lived in, which gives the place a lived-in rather than museum feel.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Old Rauma.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
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Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, about halfway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Rauma write-up.
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Old Rauma sits at 130 km, about halfway. Next is back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
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back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki comes up about 154 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Old Rauma.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Rauma write-up.
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about 177 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Old Rauma.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, late in the day. Next is Villa Mairea.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Mairea write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 261 km.
Villa Mairea → Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki → Old Rauma is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old Rauma → Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old Rauma → back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki → back through Old Rauma is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Old Rauma → back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki → Villa Mairea is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.