CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Innsbruck it runs 268 km to Innsbruck; allow about 5 h 03 of riding. The stops in between: King's House on Schachen, Linderhof Castle, The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: and Neuschwanstein Castle. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Austria into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
27 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
22 km on Romantische Strasse.
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Innsbruck sits in a bowl. The Inn river runs through the middle, the town name means bridge over the Inn, and on both sides steep limestone mountains rise almost from the streets. To the north the jagged Nordkette stands over the rooftops, and a funicular and a cable car carry you from the old centre to over two thousand metres in about twenty minutes, so that you can drink a morning coffee in town and an afternoon coffee among the rocks.
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Innsbruck is where the day begins. Next is King's House on Schachen.
This is one of the few royal residences in Europe that you cannot reach by any road, and King Ludwig II of Bavaria would have liked it that way. The King's House on Schachen stands on a high alpine meadow at about 1,866 metres in the Wetterstein mountains, south of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, below the jagged walls of the range that culminates in the Zugspitze. Ludwig had it built between 1869 and 1872 as a mountain retreat, and from the outside it looks like a modest Swiss chalet. Inside, upstairs, is a fantasy: the Turkish Hall, a room of blue, gold and red, with a fountain, peacock-feather fans, divans and stained glass, where the king liked to celebrate his birthday dressed in oriental costume while his servants smoked hookahs.
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King's House on Schachen comes up 22 km in. Next is Linderhof Castle.
Of all the palaces King Ludwig II of Bavaria dreamed up, Linderhof is the only one he saw finished, and it is the one he actually lived in for long periods. Hidden in the Graswang valley in the Ammergau Alps, it is a small, extravagant rococo villa inspired by Versailles, with gilded rooms, a hall of mirrors and a dining table that rose from the kitchen below so that the shy king could eat without seeing servants. The park around it is full of follies: a Moorish kiosk, a Moroccan house and, most famous of all, the Venus Grotto, an artificial cave with a lake, a shell-shaped boat and coloured lighting, built so Ludwig could imagine himself in a Wagner opera. Linderhof belongs to the group of Ludwig's palaces recently listed by UNESCO.
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At least 47 km in you reach Linderhof Castle. Next is The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria:.
Neuschwanstein is the castle that everybody has seen before they arrive, and it is almost impossible to see it freshly. Ludwig II, the king of Bavaria, had it built from 1869 as a private retreat in the style of a medieval knight's castle, with towers, turrets and rooms painted with scenes from the operas of Wagner, whom he adored. It stands on a rocky spur above the Pöllat gorge, with the Alpsee lake and the plain below. Ludwig lived in it only a few months before he was declared unfit to rule and died in mysterious circumstances in Lake Starnberg in June 1886, at the age of forty. The castle was opened to the public within weeks.
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The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria:, about halfway. Next is Neuschwanstein Castle.
King Ludwig II of Bavaria began building Neuschwanstein in 1869 as a private dream, a medieval knight's castle with all the comforts of the nineteenth century, including central heating and running water. He never saw it finished, and he lived there for only a handful of months. In 1886 he was declared unfit to rule and removed, and he died a few days later in the Starnberger See, in circumstances that are still debated. Within weeks the castle was opened to the public to pay off his debts, and it has been admired ever since. Walt Disney's designers are said to have taken inspiration from it.
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Neuschwanstein Castle sits at 86 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria:.
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back through The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: comes up 108 km in. Next is back through Linderhof Castle.
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129 km in you reach back through Linderhof Castle. Next is back through King's House on Schachen.
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back through King's House on Schachen, late in the day. Next is Innsbruck.
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The route ends here after 268 km.
Innsbruck → King's House on Schachen is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
King's House on Schachen → Linderhof Castle is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Linderhof Castle → The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: → back through Linderhof Castle is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Linderhof Castle → back through King's House on Schachen is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through King's House on Schachen → Innsbruck is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.