CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 297 km round trip from Innere Stadt - roughly 4 h 01 in the saddle. On the way it passes Rusovce - Gerulata, Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape and back through Rusovce - Gerulata. It crosses from Austria into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The ride follows Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape for 81 km.
Vienna rewards the rider who parks the bike and walks. The Innere Stadt, the old centre, sits inside the line of the Ringstrasse, the great boulevard laid out in the nineteenth century where the medieval walls once stood, and it is lined with the opera house, the parliament, the university and a procession of grand museums. At the heart is Stephansdom, the cathedral with a roof of coloured tiles and a tall south tower that has been a landmark for centuries. The Hofburg, once the imperial palace, takes up a sizable chunk of the neighbourhood.
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Vienna is where the day begins. Next is Rusovce - Gerulata.
Three countries meet in the fields south of Bratislava, and the Romans had a fort here long before anybody drew those borders. Gerulata was an auxiliary fort on the Danube frontier, in what is now Rusovce, a district at the southern edge of the Slovak capital. Its remains have been excavated, and a small museum displays foundations and finds, from coins to pottery and gravestones. The site is part of the Danube Limes listed by UNESCO, a frontier that ran from Germany to the Black Sea.
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Rusovce - Gerulata comes up 37 km in.
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74 km in you reach Rusovce - Gerulata.
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Rusovce - Gerulata, about halfway. Next is Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
The Neusiedler See, Fertő in Hungarian, is a strange lake. It is huge, over three hundred square kilometres of water stretching from Austria across the border into Hungary, but almost nowhere is it deeper than a couple of metres, and a vast belt of reeds surrounds much of it, so that from many places you cannot actually see the water. It has no natural outflow, its level depends on rain and evaporation, and in the 1860s it dried out completely for several years, with farmers ploughing the lakebed. The lake and the villages around it were listed by UNESCO in 2001 as a cultural landscape shaped by thousands of years of human life on the border between Alpine and steppe worlds.
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Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape sits at 148 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rusovce - Gerulata.
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back through Rusovce - Gerulata comes up 185 km in.
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222 km in you reach back through Rusovce - Gerulata.
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back through Rusovce - Gerulata, late in the day. Next is Vienna.
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The route ends here after 297 km.
Vienna → Rusovce - Gerulata is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → back through Rusovce - Gerulata is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rusovce - Gerulata → Vienna is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.