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 333 km round trip from Idrija - roughly 6 h 04 in the saddle. The stops in between: Roman Walls in Mirje, Snežnik-Ždrocle and back through Roman Walls in Mirje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The water barriers of the Idrijca are among the strangest industrial monuments in Europe: massive stone and timber dams built across a narrow mountain river not to store water for drinking or power, but to float logs. Locals call them klavže, and the biggest have been nicknamed the Slovenian pyramids for their huge, carefully cut blocks. They lie in the deep, wooded gorge below the Vojsko plateau, a short ride from the town of Idrija.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is where the day begins. Next is Roman Walls in Mirje.
In the middle of Ljubljana, on Mirje street, a long stretch of reconstructed wall recalls the Roman town of Emona. The Romans founded Emona in the early first century AD, on a grid of streets beside the Ljubljanica river, as a frontier outpost and trading town on the road between Italy and the Danube. It had walls, gates, forums, baths and a population of several thousand. Later, the town was sacked by Huns and other invaders, and its stones were reused for centuries, so that very little survived above ground.
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Roman Walls in Mirje comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Snežnik-Ždrocle.
Ždrocle is a fragment of primeval beech forest on the slopes of Snežnik, the big karst mountain in the far south of Slovenia, close to the Croatian border, and it is one of the components of the great European UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests. That listing stretches from the Carpathians to Spain, but here you are in its Dinaric heart, where beech, fir and maple grow on a chaotic surface of limestone sinkholes, sharp ridges and hollows full of moss. Snežnik itself rises to just under eighteen hundred metres and holds its snow late, which is how it got its name.
Read the complete Snežnik-Ždrocle write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Snežnik-Ždrocle. Next is back through Roman Walls in Mirje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roman Walls in Mirje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Roman Walls in Mirje, late in the day. Next is Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier. That is the ride.
Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → Roman Walls in Mirje is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman Walls in Mirje → Snežnik-Ždrocle is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Snežnik-Ždrocle → back through Roman Walls in Mirje is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Roman Walls in Mirje → Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.