CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 556 km round trip from Budapest - roughly 9 h 13 in the saddle. The stops in between: Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding, Iža - “Kelemantia”, back through Iža - “Kelemantia” and back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Budapest is two cities that were joined in 1873: hilly, historic Buda on the west bank of the Danube, and flat, lively Pest on the east. The river between them is wide and powerful, crossed by a string of bridges, of which the Chain Bridge, opened in 1849, is the oldest and most graceful. From the Buda side, the castle hill rises above the water with its palace and the spire of Matthias Church, and across the river the neo-Gothic Parliament building stretches along the bank, lit gold at night. It is one of the best-looking capitals in Europe, and it knows it.
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Budapest is where the day begins. Next is Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
Hollókő is a village of about three hundred people in the Cserhát hills of northern Hungary, thirty-odd kilometres south of the Slovak border, and it is one of the few places in Europe where a whole way of life has been kept, not by a museum but by the people still living in the houses. It was one of the first places inscribed by UNESCO, in 1987, as a living example of a traditional village of the Palóc, a Hungarian ethnic group of this region.
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Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding comes up 57 km in.
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114 km in you reach Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding. Next is Iža - “Kelemantia”.
The Danube makes a border here, and so it did two thousand years ago. On the north bank, at Iža in what is now Slovakia, stood the Roman fort of Celemantia, and on the south bank, near Almásfüzitő, another fort called Azaum guarded the Pannonian shore. Together they were part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier of the Roman Empire, and UNESCO listed sections of it in 2021. Close by, at Szőny, lay Brigetio, a legionary base and a real town with an amphitheatre. The river was the road, the wall and the defence all in one, and the legions patrolled it in boats.
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Iža - “Kelemantia”, about halfway. Next is Iža - “Kelemantia”.
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Iža - “Kelemantia” sits at 229 km, about halfway. Next is back through Iža - “Kelemantia”.
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back through Iža - “Kelemantia” comes up 286 km in. Next is back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
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343 km in you reach back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
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back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding, late in the day. Next is Budapest.
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The route ends here after 556 km.
Budapest → Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding → Iža - “Kelemantia” is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Iža - “Kelemantia” → back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is 138 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding → Budapest is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.