CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 323 km round trip from Gosau - roughly 4 h 47 in the saddle. The stops in between: See, Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, Herrenchiemsee New Palace and back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Austria into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. 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 42 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
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Salt made all of this. Long before anyone thought of postcards, people were tunnelling into the mountain above Hallstatt for it, and finds from the prehistoric mine and its cemetery were so rich that archaeologists named a whole phase of the European Iron Age, the Hallstatt culture, after a village you can walk across in ten minutes. The Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut cultural landscape, inscribed in 1997, takes in the lake, the village, the salt mountain, the limestone massif of the Dachstein and the valleys around Gosau, Bad Goisern and Bad Aussee.
Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
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Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is where the day begins. Next is See.
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
Read the complete See write-up.
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See comes up 50 km in. Next is Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Salzburg's old town is a stage set that happens to be real. Squeezed between the river Salzach and the steep rock of the Mönchsberg, it packs baroque domes, church towers and tall merchants' houses into a few dense streets, while the white walls of Hohensalzburg fortress sit high above everything like a lid on a jewellery box. The city has around a hundred and fifty thousand people, yet the centre still feels small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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99 km in you reach Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. Next is Herrenchiemsee New Palace.
King Ludwig II wanted to build Versailles on an island, and for the most part he did. The New Palace on Herrenchiemsee, the largest island in the Chiemsee, is his answer to Louis XIV, a Bavarian homage to the French sun king that took years to build and was never finished. Ludwig spent barely ten days there in total. The money ran out, the king's reputation among his ministers fell, and in 1886 he was dead in Lake Starnberg under circumstances people still argue about.
Read the complete Herrenchiemsee New Palace write-up.
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Herrenchiemsee New Palace, about halfway. Next is back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg sits at 198 km, about halfway. Next is back through See.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete See write-up.
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back through See comes up 248 km in. Next is Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur closes the day.
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → See is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
See → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Herrenchiemsee New Palace is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Herrenchiemsee New Palace → back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → back through See is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See → Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.