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Soca Valley Road

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Recorded distance
38 km
Riding-time estimate
39 min
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

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Why this ride

A natural corridor of river bends, cliffs and historic settlements. It also links naturally to Soca Valley and Triglav National Park.

Access context

Check alpine pass openings and seasonal traffic. Specific flag: seasonal traffic.

Seasonal context

May-Oct

Scenic road chapters

Slovenia Vrsic Pass Road

Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 10 km this is Slovenia Vrsic Pass Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.

Chapter facts
Length
10 km
Named road
Slovenia Vrsic Pass Road

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Bovec

    Bovec sits at the head of the Soča valley, in a wide bowl of green meadows ringed by limestone walls that look as if they were stacked there deliberately. Kanin rises to the south, the high Julian Alps close in to the east, and the river that gave the valley its name runs cold and unbelievably turquoise just down the road. It is a small town of around sixteen hundred people, but in summer its population of kayakers, rafters, paragliders and riders makes it feel much larger.

    Read the complete Bovec write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Bovec sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Kobarid.

  2. 2. Kobarid

    Kobarid is a quiet little town in a loud history. In October 1917, in what the Italians know as Caporetto, Austro-Hungarian and German troops broke through the Italian lines on the Isonzo front in the twelfth battle of the river, and the retreat that followed became a byword for catastrophe in Italy. Ernest Hemingway used it as the backdrop for A Farewell to Arms. For two and a half years before that the valley had been a front line, with thousands of men dying in the mountains above, and the town now holds one of the most thoughtful war museums in Europe, which was named European Museum of the Year in 1993.

    Read the complete Kobarid write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Kobarid comes up 12 km in. Next is Tolmin.

  3. 3. Tolmin

    Tolmin sits at the meeting of two rivers, the Soča and the Tolminka, in a broad green bowl where the Julian Alps begin to soften toward the Friulian plain. It is the main town of the middle Soča valley, a place with three and a half thousand people, a handful of shops, a market and a cheerful, workaday air, and it makes a good base for riders in the region. Kobarid lies up the valley, Kanal further down, and the Italian town of Cividale del Friuli is beyond the hills to the west.

    Read the complete Near Tolmin write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    38 km in you reach Tolmin.

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