Why this ride
From Kroměříž it runs 248 km to Kroměříž; allow about 3 h 09 of riding. It goes by way of Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape and back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Castle Garden and Castle and Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 248 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 09
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Castle Garden and Castle → Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 77 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 77 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Castle Garden and Castle
The Archbishop's palace at Kromeriz is a place where a bishop's idea of heaven became a garden. The prince-bishops of Olomouc, who ruled much of Moravia, made Kromeriz their summer residence, and in the seventeenth century they rebuilt the castle and laid out two gardens in the Baroque style. UNESCO listed the palace and the gardens in 1998. The Flower Garden is a formal garden with clipped hedges, fountains, and a long colonnade that is one of the finest in central Europe, while the larger Castle Garden beside the palace is a landscape park of lawns, trees and ponds.
Read the complete Castle Garden and Castle write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Castle Garden and Castle is where the day begins. Next is Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
2. Tugendhat Villa in Brno
When the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a house for the young couple Grete and Fritz Tugendhat in Brno at the end of the 1920s, he created one of the masterpieces of modern architecture. Completed in 1930, the villa sits on a slope above the city, with a vast open-plan living room enclosed by glass walls that could be lowered into the floor, a wall of onyx, and chrome-plated steel columns. It was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2001, and it remains one of the most influential houses of the twentieth century.
Read the complete Tugendhat Villa in Brno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tugendhat Villa in Brno comes up 71 km in. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
3. Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
The princes of Liechtenstein owned this corner of southern Moravia for centuries, and they treated it as a canvas. Over more than three hundred years they shaped a landscape of about 200 square kilometres between the towns of Lednice and Valtice, with palaces, hunting lodges, ponds, avenues and follies set out as part of a single garden. UNESCO listed it in 1996 as one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe, and the effect is that you pass from one scene to another as if you were walking through a painting.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
141 km in you reach Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape. Next is back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
4. back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tugendhat Villa in Brno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno, late in the day. Next is Castle Garden and Castle.
5. Castle Garden and Castle
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castle Garden and Castle write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Castle Garden and Castle. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Castle Garden and Castle to Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Castle Garden and Castle → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tugendhat Villa in Brno to Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape to back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno to Castle Garden and Castle
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Castle Garden and Castle is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.