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 Attersee it runs 252 km to Attersee; allow about 3 h 25 of riding. On the way it passes Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, Herrenchiemsee New Palace and back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Austria into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
51 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.
72 km on Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Herrenchiemsee New Palace.
The Attersee is the biggest lake in the Salzkammergut, and Abtsdorf sits on its western shore, a settlement so small the label can get away with a Roman numeral. In this case the III means a third spot among a cluster of lake access points, so what you are really visiting is the shoreline between Attersee village and Weyregg, where the water is startlingly clear and the mountains stand up behind the opposite bank.
Read the complete Abtsdorf III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abtsdorf III is where the day begins. Next is Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Salzburg's old town is a stage set that happens to be real. Squeezed between the river Salzach and the steep rock of the Mönchsberg, it packs baroque domes, church towers and tall merchants' houses into a few dense streets, while the white walls of Hohensalzburg fortress sit high above everything like a lid on a jewellery box. The city has around a hundred and fifty thousand people, yet the centre still feels small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg comes up about 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Herrenchiemsee New Palace.
King Ludwig II wanted to build Versailles on an island, and for the most part he did. The New Palace on Herrenchiemsee, the largest island in the Chiemsee, is his answer to Louis XIV, a Bavarian homage to the French sun king that took years to build and was never finished. Ludwig spent barely ten days there in total. The money ran out, the king's reputation among his ministers fell, and in 1886 he was dead in Lake Starnberg under circumstances people still argue about.
Read the complete Herrenchiemsee New Palace write-up.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Herrenchiemsee New Palace. Next is back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, late in the day. Next is Abtsdorf III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abtsdorf III write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abtsdorf III. That is the ride.
Abtsdorf III → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Herrenchiemsee New Palace is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Herrenchiemsee New Palace → back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Abtsdorf III is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.