CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Klagenfurt am Wörthersee it runs 183 km to Klagenfurt am Wörthersee; allow about 3 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints, Promenade along the Embankments and Bridge and Green Promenade along Vegova Street. It crosses from Austria into Slovenia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Klagenfurt has a dragon, and the dragon is the first thing to see. The Lindwurm fountain on the Neuer Platz, carved from a single block of local stone in the late sixteenth century, is the symbol of the city, and the legend says a monster once lived in the marshes here before the founders drained them. The city of ninety thousand people is the capital of Carinthia, built on flat ground just east of the Wörthersee, with the long wall of the Karawanks to the south marking the border with Slovenia. Robert Musil and Ingeborg Bachmann were both born here, an unexpected literary pedigree for a quiet provincial capital.
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Klagenfurt is where the day begins. Next is Church of St. Francis of Assisi, 23 km on.
Ljubljana's Church of Saint Francis of Assisi stands in the Šiška district, north-west of the old centre, and it is one of the buildings by Jože Plečnik that UNESCO listed in 2021. Plečnik was born in Ljubljana in 1872, trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner, and worked in Prague, where he renovated the castle for the first Czechoslovak president, before returning to his home city in 1921. He spent the next decades remaking Ljubljana in his own style, with bridges, markets, a library and gardens, mixing classical forms with a personal, almost playful imagination. The church in Šiška, built in the late 1920s, is among his strangest and most original buildings.
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Church of St. Francis of Assisi comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints.
It is the city's central burial ground, laid out on the eastern edge of town, and in the late 1930s the architect Joze Plecnik added a series of chapels, arcades and entrance structures that turn it into a quiet landscape of white walls, columns and calm courtyards. He called it the Garden of All Saints, and the name fits. Plecnik was Slovenia's great architect of the twentieth century, a man who also shaped the bridges, markets and riverbanks of Ljubljana, and his works in the city were added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
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At least about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints. Next is Promenade along the Embankments and Bridge.
Ljubljana is a small capital with a big reputation for charm, and much of that comes from the river. The Ljubljanica runs through the centre in a shallow curve, with cafes along both banks, willows trailing in the water and bridges at every few steps. The architect Joze Plecnik, who worked here for much of the first half of the twentieth century, shaped the embankments, the market colonnade and the bridges, and his work was listed by UNESCO in 2021 as part of a series of his buildings.
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Promenade along the Embankments and Bridge, about halfway. Next is Green Promenade along Vegova Street.
Vegova Street is one of the quieter corners of Plecnik's Ljubljana, and the green promenade that runs beside it was one of the places where he turned a piece of ordinary city into something calm and ordered. The area lies in the district between the old town and the university, where the new National and University Library stands, and the planting, avenues of trees, paths and small spaces have been laid out with the same care he gave to the grand squares. It is a modest thing, but modest is what makes it special.
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Green Promenade along Vegova Street sits at 93 km, about halfway. Next is back through Promenade along the Embankments and Bridge.
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back through Promenade along the Embankments and Bridge comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints. Next is back through Church of St. Francis of Assisi, 23 km on.
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back through Church of St. Francis of Assisi, late in the day. Next is Klagenfurt.
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Read the complete Klagenfurt write-up.
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The route ends here after 183 km.
Klagenfurt → Church of St. Francis of Assisi is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of St. Francis of Assisi → Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints → Promenade along the Embankments and Bridge is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Promenade along the Embankments and Bridge → back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints is 6 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Plečnik’s Žale - Garden of All Saints → back through Church of St. Francis of Assisi is 3 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of St. Francis of Assisi → Klagenfurt is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.