CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Bratislava it runs 175 km to Bratislava; allow about 2 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich, Wien - Legionslager Umwehrung, Historic Centre of Vienna and back through Historic Centre of Vienna. It crosses from Slovakia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Bratislava has been a border town for most of its history, and it still feels like one. The Danube flows past below a castle on a rocky hill, with Austria visible a few kilometres to the west and Hungary to the south, and the city has been Pressburg, Pozsony and Bratislava at different times. For nearly three centuries, from 1563 to 1830, Hungarian kings were crowned in St Martin's Cathedral, in the old town, so that this modest place was the coronation city of a kingdom. The cathedral spire carries a gilded replica of the crown. Maria Theresa was crowned here in 1741, Mozart played here as a boy, and the old town reflects that Habsburg past in its pastel-coloured baroque palaces.
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Bratislava is where the day begins. Next is Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Under the Hoher Markt, one of the oldest squares in Vienna, lie the foundations of the Roman legionary fortress of Vindobona. The Tenth Legion was stationed here for centuries, guarding the Danube frontier, and the camp covered much of what is now the inner city. Its outline can still be traced in the pattern of streets: the curve of the Graben follows the line of the fortress moat, and the old Roman road toward the west became today's Herrengasse. A small museum on the Hoher Markt displays the remains of officers' houses, with their heating systems, and finds from the camp.
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Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich comes up 19 km in. Next is Wien - Legionslager Umwehrung.
Vienna began as a Roman legionary camp called Vindobona, built around the end of the first century on a bluff above the Danube and a small tributary. The camp held a legion, first the Thirteenth and later the Tenth, and it was a large rectangle surrounded by a wall and ditch, with gates on each side. A civilian settlement grew outside it. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius died in this region in 180, and one tradition says he died at Vindobona, though the evidence is not certain.
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At least 55 km in you reach Wien - Legionslager Umwehrung. Next is Historic Centre of Vienna.
Vienna's historic centre has been rebuilt many times, but it never lost its sense of itself as the capital of an empire. The medieval city grew around the cathedral of St Stephen, whose patterned tile roof and soaring south tower have dominated the skyline since the fourteenth century, and later the Habsburgs added the Hofburg palace, the baroque palaces of the nobility and the grand squares. In the 1850s, the old city walls were pulled down and replaced by the Ringstrasse, a wide boulevard lined with the Opera, the Parliament, the university, the city hall and the museums, all in historic styles, which is itself a part of the listed ensemble.
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Historic Centre of Vienna, about halfway. Next is Historic Centre of Vienna.
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Historic Centre of Vienna sits at 75 km, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of Vienna.
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back through Historic Centre of Vienna comes up 94 km in. Next is back through Wien - Legionslager Umwehrung.
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113 km in you reach back through Wien - Legionslager Umwehrung. Next is back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
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back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich, late in the day. Next is Bratislava.
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The route ends here after 175 km.
Bratislava → Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Bratislava is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.