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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250 km from Mörbisch am See to Mörbisch am See, about 4 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube, Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich, Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm and back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich. The line favours views over speed.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 61 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
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.
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Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is where the day begins. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube.
Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, spent several years at Carnuntum during his wars against the Germanic tribes north of the Danube, and he is thought to have written part of his Meditations here; the third book carries the note that it was written at Carnuntum. In the second century, this was one of the most important places on the Roman frontier: a legionary fortress, an auxiliary fort and a civil town that grew into the capital of the province of Upper Pannonia, with tens of thousands of inhabitants. Today, the archaeological park at Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg shows reconstructed houses, a bath and streets built using Roman methods, two amphitheatres, and the Heidentor, a great ruined triumphal arch standing alone in the fields. The Danube Limes became a World Heritage site in 2021.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube write-up.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Zeiselmauer is a village that grew up inside a Roman fort, and it never quite moved out. The late Roman fort of Cannabiaca guarded this stretch of the Danube near Tulln, part of the frontier of the province of Noricum, and its walls, gate and towers were absorbed into the village over the centuries. One of the best-preserved features is a horseshoe-shaped tower, typical of late Roman fortifications, and a later fortlet within the fort, with walls standing several metres high, is one of the most impressive Roman buildings in Austria. Zeiselmauer is part of the Danube Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
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Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm, about halfway. Next is back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich sits at 185 km, about halfway. Next is back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube comes up about 193 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape closes the day.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube → Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm → back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich → back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.