Why this ride
A 191 km round trip from Voorschoten - roughly 3 h 09 in the saddle. It goes by way of Van Nellefabriek, Woerden-Centrum, Rietveld Schröderhuis and back through Woerden-Centrum. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg and Rietveld Schröderhuis
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 191 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 09
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Zeeland Delta Works Route
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 28 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 29 km
- Named road
- Zeeland Delta Works Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg
Corbulo's canal is one of the oldest engineering works in the Netherlands, and it was dug by soldiers. In AD 47 the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, commanding the Roman army in Lower Germany, put his men to work cutting a canal between the Rhine and the Meuse, partly to keep them busy and partly to give ships a sheltered route that avoided the open sea, with its storms and raiding Frisians. The Fossa Corbulonis, as it was called, ran through the low country between modern Leiden and the Meuse mouth, and its line is thought to be followed today by the Vliet, a quiet waterway that runs between Leiden and Delft.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg is where the day begins. Next is Van Nellefabriek.
2. Van Nellefabriek
The Van Nelle factory, on the edge of Rotterdam, is one of the most beautiful industrial buildings ever made. Built between 1925 and 1931 for a company that processed coffee, tea and tobacco, it is a long, light building of glass and steel, with curtain walls that let daylight flood into the workspaces. The designers, Johannes Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt, created what became an icon of modernist architecture, a factory of light and air for its workers. It was added to the UNESCO list in 2014.
Read the complete Van Nellefabriek write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Van Nellefabriek comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Woerden-Centrum.
3. Woerden-Centrum
Woerden is a small Dutch town on the Oude Rijn, the old Rhine, halfway between Utrecht and Leiden, in the middle of the Green Heart of Holland, a landscape of polders, meadows, ditches and cows. Its centre is a compact old town ringed by canals, with a castle, a big church and a windmill on the old ramparts. The Romans were here too: Woerden lies on the line of the Lower German Limes, and the remains of a Roman fort lie beneath the town centre.
Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Woerden-Centrum. Next is Rietveld Schröderhuis.
4. Rietveld Schröderhuis
On a quiet residential street in Utrecht, a few minutes from the centre by bicycle, stands a small box-shaped house made of white and grey planes, with black frames and touches of red, yellow and blue, which looks as though it had been made from a Mondrian painting. This is the Rietveld Schroder House, built in 1924 and inscribed by UNESCO in 2000 as a masterpiece of the De Stijl movement and of modern architecture. The old centre of Utrecht, with its cathedral tower and its canals, is under two kilometres away.
Read the complete Rietveld Schröderhuis write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Rietveld Schröderhuis, about halfway. Next is back through Woerden-Centrum.
5. back through Woerden-Centrum
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Woerden-Centrum sits at 134 km, about halfway. Next is back through Van Nellefabriek.
6. back through Van Nellefabriek
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Van Nellefabriek write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Van Nellefabriek comes up about 164 km into the recorded legs. Next is Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg.
7. Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg closes the day.
Leg by leg
Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg to Van Nellefabriek
Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg → Van Nellefabriek is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Van Nellefabriek to Woerden-Centrum
Van Nellefabriek → Woerden-Centrum is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Woerden-Centrum to Rietveld Schröderhuis
Woerden-Centrum → Rietveld Schröderhuis is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rietveld Schröderhuis to back through Woerden-Centrum
Rietveld Schröderhuis → back through Woerden-Centrum is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Woerden-Centrum to back through Van Nellefabriek
back through Woerden-Centrum → back through Van Nellefabriek is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Van Nellefabriek to Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg
back through Van Nellefabriek → Corbulo's canal | Starrenburg is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.