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 274 km round trip from Ružomberok - roughly 5 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the, Lestiny, Tvrdosin and back through Lestiny. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
At the end of a narrow road climbing out of Ružomberok, a single street of log houses runs up a hillside meadow beneath the forests of the Veľká Fatra. Vlkolínec has been a World Heritage Site since 1993, chosen as the most complete surviving example of a traditional Central European mountain village of its kind, and it remains a lived-in place rather than an open-air museum, with residents, gardens and the occasional dog asleep in the sun.
Read the complete Vlkolínec write-up.
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Vlkolínec is where the day begins. Next is Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the.
The Church of All Saints in Tvrdošín, at the edge of the town in the Orava valley, is a wooden Gothic church from the fifteenth century, built of larch and fir, with a shingled roof, a tower with a distinctive spire and a painted interior, and it is one of the oldest of the wooden churches listed as a World Heritage Site in Slovakia. Its Renaissance and Baroque decorations, including a carved altar and paintings, were added over the centuries.
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Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 98 km into the recorded legs you reach Lestiny. Next is Tvrdosin.
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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Tvrdosin, 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 sits at 148 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the comes up about 217 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vlkolínec.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vlkolínec write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Vlkolínec closes the day.
Vlkolínec → Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → Lestiny is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leštiny → Tvrdosin is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tvrdošín → back through Lestiny is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lestiny → back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → Vlkolínec is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.