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 Petronell-Carnuntum it runs 364 km to Petronell-Carnuntum; allow about 5 h 21 of riding. The stops in between: Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich, Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich, Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn and Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 47 km of Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn.
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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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.
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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.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich. Next is Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn.
Schönbrunn was the summer residence of the Habsburgs, the dynasty that ruled a large part of Europe for centuries. The palace, on the western edge of Vienna, was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the eighteenth century under Empress Maria Theresa, and it has more than a thousand rooms. It began as a hunting lodge on land where, legend says, Emperor Matthias found a beautiful spring, the schöner Brunnen that gave the place its name. The gardens are vast and formal, with avenues of trees, fountains, statues, a maze, and the Gloriette, a colonnaded structure on the hill above the palace with views over Vienna. The palace and gardens were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1996.
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Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn, about halfway. Next is Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Egon Schiele was born in Tulln in 1890, in the station building where his father was stationmaster, and the town that produced one of the most provocative painters of Viennese modernism is today a quiet, prosperous place on the Danube, known as Austria's garden town. Long before that, it was the Roman fort of Comagena, part of the frontier along the Danube that protected the Roman province of Noricum. One of the fort's towers has survived remarkably well: the so-called Salzturm, a horseshoe-shaped tower on the riverbank, one of the best-preserved Roman structures in Austria. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
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Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn.
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back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn comes up about 229 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich.
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about 277 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.
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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 364 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 → Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn → Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm → back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn → back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is 48 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.