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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From Bârsana it runs 525 km to Bârsana; allow about 11 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, Synevyr - Strymba and back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Ukraine - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Maramureș is a region in the far north of Romania, along the Ukrainian border, where traditions have survived more strongly than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its villages are known for their carved wooden gates, their haystacks and their wooden churches, eight of which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bârsana, in the valley of the Iza river, has one of them, a church built in the eighteenth century, with a tall slender spire and a steep shingled roof.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of Maramureş write-up.
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Wooden Churches of Maramureş is where the day begins. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
Read the complete Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension write-up.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
In the Carpathian mountains of Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, the forests around Synevyr include some of the last remaining primeval beech forests in Europe, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Strymba is one of the protected forest areas, in the hills near the village of Kolochava, where beech trees grow old and die without human interference, creating a rich habitat for fungi, insects, birds and animals.
Read the complete Synevyr - Strymba write-up.
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about 262 km into the recorded legs you reach Synevyr - Strymba. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, late in the day. Next is Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of Maramureş write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Wooden Churches of Maramureş. That is the ride.
Wooden Churches of Maramureş → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Synevyr - Strymba is 170 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Strymba → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 169 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.