CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Kroměříž it runs 368 km to Kroměříž; allow about 4 h 53 of riding. The stops in between: Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape and back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 46 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Kroměříž is where Czech parliamentary history briefly came to rest. In 1848, when revolution shook the Habsburg lands, the Austrian constituent assembly moved here from Vienna for safety, and the archbishop's castle housed a group of delegates who tried to write a liberal constitution before the emperor dissolved them. That fact tends to surprise people who come for the gardens, but it fits the place: a small town with an unusually grand residence, built for the bishops of Olomouc.
Read the complete Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž write-up.
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Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž is where the day begins. Next is Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc.
Olomouc is the city Prague forgot to overshadow. For centuries before the Habsburgs shifted their attention elsewhere it was the capital of Moravia, and the proof is on the Upper Square, where the Holy Trinity Column rises out of the cobbles like a stone wedding cake. It was built in the first half of the eighteenth century, roughly between 1716 and 1754, and it is among the largest Baroque sculpture groups in central Europe. The city raised it partly as thanks for surviving a plague, and UNESCO listed it in 2000. Walk round it and the saints keep appearing, each one a little more theatrical than the last.
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Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc comes up 65 km in. Next is 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.
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130 km in you reach Tugendhat Villa in Brno. Next is 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.
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Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, about halfway. Next is back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
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Read the complete Tugendhat Villa in Brno write-up.
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back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno sits at 259 km, about halfway. Next is back through Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc.
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Read the complete Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc write-up.
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back through Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc comes up 324 km in. Next is Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž write-up.
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Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž closes the day.
Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž → Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → 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 → back through Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc → Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.