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 381 km to Trier; allow about 5 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Völklingen Ironworks, Place Stanislas and back through Völklingen Ironworks. It crosses from Germany into France - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Trier is the city that Germans call the oldest in the country, and the Barbara Baths are among the reasons it can say so with a straight face. Built in the second century AD, when Augusta Treverorum was one of the leading cities of the Roman north, they were once among the largest bathing complexes anywhere outside Rome, a vast rectangle of hot rooms, cold plunges, exercise yards and furnace tunnels. Later centuries treated the building as a quarry, and medieval Trier built houses and a monastery over parts of it, which is why what survives is a maze of walls, arches and basement passages rather than a roofed hall. Walk down into the underground service tunnels and you can see the sooty vaults where slaves tended the fires.
Read the complete Barbara Baths write-up.
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Barbara Baths is where the day begins. Next is Völklingen Ironworks.
Rust, soot and colossal machinery: the Völklingen Ironworks is a cathedral of heavy industry, and walking through it is an overwhelming experience. Founded in 1873 and developed by the Röchling family into one of the largest iron producers in Europe, the works produced pig iron from 1883 until 1986, when the blast furnaces were shut down. Instead of being demolished, the complex was preserved, and in 1994 it became the first industrial monument from the heyday of heavy industry to be listed by UNESCO. Today visitors can climb the blast furnaces, walk through the huge blowing engine hall, and explore the coking plant and the ore storage, much of which has been taken over by nature, with birch trees and wild plants growing among the steel.
Read the complete Völklingen Ironworks write-up.
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Völklingen Ironworks comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Place Stanislas.
Place Stanislas in Nancy is the work of a king without a kingdom. Stanislas Leszczyński, twice king of Poland and father-in-law of Louis XV, was given the Duchy of Lorraine in 1737 as a consolation prize, and he spent the rest of his life rebuilding its capital. The great square that bears his name, laid out in the 1750s by the architect Emmanuel Héré, links the old medieval town with the newer quarter, and it is one of the most harmonious public spaces in Europe. Pale stone buildings with curved corners stand around a wide cobbled space, and a statue of the duke stands in the middle.
Read the complete Place Stanislas write-up.
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about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach Place Stanislas. Next is back through Völklingen Ironworks.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Völklingen Ironworks write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Völklingen Ironworks, late in the day. Next is Barbara Baths.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barbara Baths write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Barbara Baths. That is the ride.
Barbara Baths → Völklingen Ironworks is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Völklingen Ironworks → Place Stanislas is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Place Stanislas → back through Völklingen Ironworks is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Völklingen Ironworks → Barbara Baths is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.