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 Petronell-Carnuntum it runs 477 km to Petronell-Carnuntum; allow about 7 h 04 of riding. It goes by way of Rusovce - Gerulata, 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 crosses from Austria into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Scenic road chapters
Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
This part of the ride is 72 km of Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
Chapter facts
Length
72 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Carnuntum - Legionslager
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.
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Planning note
Carnuntum - Legionslager is where the day begins. Next is Rusovce - Gerulata.
2. Rusovce - Gerulata
Three countries meet in the fields south of Bratislava, and the Romans had a fort here long before anybody drew those borders. Gerulata was an auxiliary fort on the Danube frontier, in what is now Rusovce, a district at the southern edge of the Slovak capital. Its remains have been excavated, and a small museum displays foundations and finds, from coins to pottery and gravestones. The site is part of the Danube Limes listed by UNESCO, a frontier that ran from Germany to the Black Sea.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Rusovce - Gerulata comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
3. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape. Next is Semmering Railway.
4. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Carnuntum - Legionslager closes the day.
Leg by leg
Carnuntum - Legionslager to Rusovce - Gerulata
Carnuntum - Legionslager → Rusovce - Gerulata is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rusovce - Gerulata to Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape to Semmering Railway
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 to back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
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 to back through Rusovce - Gerulata
back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → back through Rusovce - Gerulata is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rusovce - Gerulata to Carnuntum - Legionslager
back through Rusovce - Gerulata → Carnuntum - Legionslager is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.