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 Trier it runs 178 km to Trier; allow about 2 h 34 of riding. The stops in between: City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F, La place forte de Longwy and back through City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F. It crosses Germany, Luxembourg and France - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
For about 49 km this is Luxembourg Mullerthal Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
39 km on Luxembourg Mullerthal Route.
Constantine built big. The Aula Palatina, which the Romans called the basilica, was the throne hall of the emperor's palace in Trier in the early fourth century, and it is still the largest single-room space to survive from antiquity. It is a plain brick box nearly seventy metres long, about twenty-seven wide and thirty-three high, with a huge apse at the end and tall windows set in two rows, and when it was finished it must have been dazzling, with marble on the walls, mosaics on the floor and heating under the floor. An emperor sitting at one end would have appeared tiny to petitioners entering from the far end, which was the idea.
Read the complete Aula Palatina write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Aula Palatina is where the day begins. Next is City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F.
Luxembourg City is built on a rocky plateau above the deep, green valleys of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers, and for centuries it was one of the most powerful fortresses in Europe, nicknamed the Gibraltar of the North. Spanish, French, Austrian and Prussian armies all held it, and each added to its walls, bastions and tunnels. In 1867, after an international treaty, most of the fortifications were dismantled, but enough remains to make the old quarters and fortifications a UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed in 1994.
Read the complete City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is La place forte de Longwy.
In 1678, after Louis XIV won Longwy from the Spanish Netherlands in the Treaty of Nijmegen, he sent his great military engineer Vauban to make sure nobody took it back. Vauban did not just fortify the old town; he built a new one, Longwy-Haut, on the plateau, designing a star-shaped stronghold with bastions, ditches and a geometric grid of streets around a central square with a well and church. It is one of the twelve sites grouped as the Fortifications of Vauban on the World Heritage list, and walking the ramparts you can still read the logic of seventeenth-century siege warfare in the earth and stone.
Read the complete La place forte de Longwy write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach La place forte de Longwy. Next is back through City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F, late in the day. Next is Aula Palatina.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aula Palatina write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Aula Palatina. That is the ride.
Aula Palatina → City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F → La place forte de Longwy is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La place forte de Longwy → back through City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and F → Aula Palatina is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.