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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381 km from Petronell-Carnuntum to Petronell-Carnuntum, about 5 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape, Semmering Railway and back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Carnuntum - Legionslager → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape for 56 km.
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 Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
The Neusiedler See, Fertő in Hungarian, is a strange lake. It is huge, over three hundred square kilometres of water stretching from Austria across the border into Hungary, but almost nowhere is it deeper than a couple of metres, and a vast belt of reeds surrounds much of it, so that from many places you cannot actually see the water. It has no natural outflow, its level depends on rain and evaporation, and in the 1860s it dried out completely for several years, with farmers ploughing the lakebed. The lake and the villages around it were listed by UNESCO in 2001 as a cultural landscape shaped by thousands of years of human life on the border between Alpine and steppe worlds.
Read the complete Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Semmering Railway.
Carl von Ghega's railway over the Semmering was a bold idea in the 1840s, when many engineers doubted that a conventional locomotive could haul a train over a mountain pass. Built between 1848 and 1854, the line climbs from Gloggnitz to the Semmering summit through fourteen tunnels and across sixteen viaducts, some with two tiers of stone arches, curving around the flanks of the mountains on ledges cut into the rock. It became the first mountain railway inscribed on the UNESCO list, in 1998, and it still carries trains between Vienna and the south, with the new Semmering Base Tunnel under construction beneath it to take over the heavy traffic.
Read the complete Semmering Railway write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 190 km into the recorded legs you reach Semmering Railway. Next is back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape, late in the day. Next is Carnuntum - Legionslager.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Carnuntum - Legionslager write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Carnuntum - Legionslager. That is the ride.
Carnuntum - Legionslager → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → Semmering Railway is 134 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Semmering Railway → back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 135 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → Carnuntum - Legionslager is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.