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 137 km round trip from Ružomberok - roughly 2 h 57 in the saddle. The stops in between: Lestiny, Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the and back through Lestiny. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 29 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the write-up.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the. 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, late in the day. 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.
Back at Vlkolínec. That is the ride.
Vlkolínec → Lestiny is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leštiny → Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the → back through Lestiny is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lestiny → Vlkolínec is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.