CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 326 km round trip from Brno - roughly 5 h 23 in the saddle. On the way it passes Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, The Jewish Cemetery, Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica and back through The Jewish Cemetery. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 8 km this is Czech South Moravian Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Brno is the second city of the Czech Republic, but it behaves like the first city of Moravia, with its own dialect, its own pride and its own very good wine. About 370,000 people live here, a lot of them students, and the centre has the mixture of old and new you would expect: a medieval core below a hilltop castle, baroque churches, and a serious collection of twentieth-century modern architecture.
Read the complete Brno write-up.
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Brno is where the day begins. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
The princes of Liechtenstein owned this corner of southern Moravia for centuries, and they treated it as a canvas. Over more than three hundred years they shaped a landscape of about 200 square kilometres between the towns of Lednice and Valtice, with palaces, hunting lodges, ponds, avenues and follies set out as part of a single garden. UNESCO listed it in 1996 as one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe, and the effect is that you pass from one scene to another as if you were walking through a painting.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
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Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
The Lednice-Valtice landscape is what happens when a very rich family decides to make a whole district into a garden. For centuries the Liechtenstein dynasty owned this corner of southern Moravia, near the border with Austria, and from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century they reshaped it, planting woods, digging ponds and building follies, until castles, parks, canals and farmland were composed into one huge designed scene about two hundred square kilometres in area. UNESCO listed it as a cultural landscape in 1996.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape. Next is The Jewish Cemetery.
On a hillside above the Jihlava river in Třebíč, thousands of gravestones stand among trees, some upright, some leaning, some covered in ivy and moss, their Hebrew inscriptions weathered by centuries. The Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in the Czech Republic, founded in the seventeenth century and used until the Second World War, and it is part of the World Heritage listing of the Jewish quarter and St. Procopius' basilica in Třebíč, inscribed in 2003, the first Jewish monument outside Israel to be listed.
Read the complete The Jewish Cemetery write-up.
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The Jewish Cemetery, about halfway. Next is Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica.
The basilica of Saint Procopius in Třebíč looks stern from outside, a long and plain Romanesque and Gothic church with massive walls and a squat tower, and it was built in the early thirteenth century as part of a Benedictine monastery founded in 1101. The monks chose a site by the Jihlava river, in the rolling country of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, and over the centuries the monastery became rich and powerful before being closed in the eighteenth century. The church survives as a rare and fine example of a style that blended the round arches of Romanesque with the pointed arches of Gothic, with a crypt that is older than the rest.
Read the complete Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica write-up.
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Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica sits at 186 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Jewish Cemetery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Jewish Cemetery write-up.
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back through The Jewish Cemetery comes up about 166 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
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about 262 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape. Next is back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
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back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, late in the day. Next is Brno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brno write-up.
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The route ends here after 326 km.
Brno → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 8 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → The Jewish Cemetery is 96 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Jewish Cemetery → back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 8 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → Brno is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.