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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A 355 km round trip from Petronell-Carnuntum - roughly 5 h 13 in the saddle. It goes by way of Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich, Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich, Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich and Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 47 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Carnuntum was a Roman city, a legionary base and, for a time, a capital. The Fourteenth Legion, the Gemina, was stationed here from the first century, and the camp, with its great barracks and parade ground, guarded a crossing of the Danube where the Amber Road from the Baltic met the river. By the second century it was the capital of the province of Upper Pannonia, with an amphitheatre, baths and a population of tens of thousands. The emperor Marcus Aurelius is said to have spent part of the German wars here, and tradition holds that he wrote some of his Meditations in the camp.
Read the complete Carnuntum - Legionslager write-up.
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Carnuntum - Legionslager is where the day begins. Next is Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Under the Hoher Markt, one of the oldest squares in Vienna, lie the foundations of the Roman legionary fortress of Vindobona. The Tenth Legion was stationed here for centuries, guarding the Danube frontier, and the camp covered much of what is now the inner city. Its outline can still be traced in the pattern of streets: the curve of the Graben follows the line of the fortress moat, and the old Roman road toward the west became today's Herrengasse. A small museum on the Hoher Markt displays the remains of officers' houses, with their heating systems, and finds from the camp.
Read the complete Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich.
The Nibelungenlied, the great medieval German epic, sends Kriemhild down the Danube to marry Etzel, king of the Huns, and has her meet him at Tulln, which says something about the town's importance on the river for centuries. Long before that, the Romans built a cavalry fort here called Comagena, and its walls still lurk beneath the town centre. The best survival is the Salzturm, a tower by the river whose lower parts are Roman, among the best preserved Roman structures in Austria. The fort is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich. Next is Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
In the fifth century, as Roman authority along the Danube collapsed, a holy man named Severinus lived at a place called Favianis, organising food supplies, ransoming captives and negotiating with barbarian kings on behalf of the remaining Roman population. His biography, written by his disciple Eugippius, is one of the most vivid accounts of the end of Roman rule in central Europe, and Favianis is generally identified with Mautern, a small town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems. The Roman fort here, parts of which survive in the town walls, is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
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Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich, about halfway. Next is Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad.
Pöchlarn is a small town on the south bank of the Danube, a few kilometres upstream from Melk, where the river is broad and slow and the Wachau valley is about to begin. The Romans called it Arelape and kept a fort here on the frontier of the empire, with a civilian settlement, the vicus, and a bathhouse for the garrison. Not much is visible above ground, but the town is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage site, which traces that long line of forts and watchtowers through Austria.
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Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
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Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
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back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich comes up about 222 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich.
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about 269 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich. Next is back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich, late in the day. Next is Carnuntum - Legionslager.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Carnuntum - Legionslager write-up.
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The route ends here after 355 km.
Carnuntum - Legionslager → Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Carnuntum - Legionslager is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.