Why this ride
Rolling secondary roads, villages and strong food-and-culture stops. It also links naturally to Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
South Moravian Wine Roads
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 137 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 13
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Access context
Verify protected-area access and weekend traffic. Specific flag: seasonal traffic.
Seasonal context
Apr-Oct
Scenic road chapters
Czech South Moravian Wine Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 12 km this is Czech South Moravian Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 12 km
- Named road
- Czech South Moravian Wine Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Brno
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Brno sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Mikulov.
2. Mikulov
Mikulov stands beneath a white limestone ridge, the Pálava hills, and from a distance its castle on the rock and the pale church tower on the Holy Hill look like a stage set. It is the southernmost town in Moravia, a few kilometres from the Austrian border, and it has been a crossroads for centuries, a place where Czech, German and Jewish cultures lived together. In German it was Nikolsburg, and for a long period it was one of the most important Jewish communities in central Europe.
Read the complete Mikulov write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mikulov comes up 29 km in. Next is Lednice.
3. Lednice
Lednice is a palace, a park and a surprising piece of luxury in the south of Moravia. The palace belonged to the princes of Liechtenstein, who ruled these lands for centuries and turned them into a vast landscaped estate, and the building that stands at the end of the village today is a neo-Gothic confection of towers and pinnacles, rebuilt in the nineteenth century in the English style. Around it lies a huge park with ponds, avenues and follies, and together with the neighbouring Valtice, the whole area is a UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 1996 as the Lednice-Valtice cultural landscape.
Read the complete Lednice write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
58 km in you reach Lednice. Next is Valtice.
4. Valtice
Valtice is the wine capital of the Czech Republic, and it looks the part. A large baroque palace dominates the town, built by the Liechtenstein family, who held the estate for centuries and made it a showpiece of their wealth. The palace has a grand courtyard, a riding hall and enormous wine cellars beneath it, and part of the cellars now houses the National Wine Centre, where visitors can taste a hundred of the best Czech wines, chosen in an annual competition. For anyone who enjoys wine, this is the place to learn about the country's vineyards.
Read the complete Valtice write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Valtice, late in the day. Next is Brno.
5. Brno
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Brno sits at 137 km, late in the day.