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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271 km from Lviv to Lviv, about 4 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol, Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles and back through Potelych-Tserkva of the of the Hol. It crosses from Ukraine into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Above Lviv's old town rises a wooded hill that locals simply call the High Castle, Vysokyi Zamok, and below it, tucked against its slopes, lies Pidzamche, whose name means under the castle. For a rider used to the cobbled squares at the centre, this is the quiet back door of the city: older, scruffier and more honest. The castle itself is long gone, a victim of the sieges and demolitions of earlier centuries, and what remains are earthworks and a few fragments of wall. What you climb for is the view. From the top, some four hundred metres above sea level, the red roofs and church spires of Lviv spread out in a patchwork, and on a clear evening the light turns the whole city gold.
Read the complete Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche write-up.
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Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche is where the day begins. Next is Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
In the village of Potelych, in western Ukraine near the Polish border, a wooden church has stood since the early sixteenth century. The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine, built of logs with a tall roof covered in shingles, and its interior holds wall paintings and an iconostasis from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
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Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles.
Out on the flat, open country east of the San river, close to the Ukrainian border, stands a wooden church that has been watching the fields for more than four hundred years. The Church of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Chotyniec dates from the early seventeenth century and belongs to the eastern tradition of Christian building in this borderland, where Ruthenian communities worshipped in the Greek rite. It is one of the churches listed together as the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region, and it has a tall, three-part design, with a nave, a smaller chancel and a bell tower, each topped by a wooden cupola.
Read the complete Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles write-up.
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about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles. Next is back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol write-up.
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back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol, late in the day. Next is Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche. That is the ride.
Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche → Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Bles → back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Potelych-Tserkva of the Descent of the Hol → Vysokyi Zamok and Pidzamche is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.