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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381 km from Noormarkku to Noormarkku, about 5 h 51 of riding. The stops in between: Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki, Paimio Sanatorium and back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki. 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.
Read the complete Villa Mairea write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki write-up.
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Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Paimio Sanatorium.
In the early 1930s, Finland needed a hospital for tuberculosis, and the architect Alvar Aalto won the competition to design it. The Paimio Sanatorium, finished in 1933, is one of the landmarks of modern architecture, a white, functionalist building set among pines on a ridge, in which every detail was designed to help the patient recover. Rooms faced south to catch the sun, windows were large, floors were coloured to calm the eye, and basins were shaped to make noise as little as possible so that the person in the next bed would not be disturbed. Aalto thought of the building as a medical instrument.
Read the complete Paimio Sanatorium write-up.
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about 191 km into the recorded legs you reach Paimio Sanatorium. 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.
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.
Back at Villa Mairea. That is the ride.
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 → Paimio Sanatorium is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Paimio Sanatorium → back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki is 128 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki → Villa Mairea is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.