CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 396 km round trip from Gosau - roughly 5 h 49 in the saddle. The stops in between: See, Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, Abtsdorf III and back through Abtsdorf III. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 42 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
51 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
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 46 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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93 km in you reach Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. Next is Abtsdorf III.
The Attersee is the biggest lake in the Salzkammergut, and Abtsdorf sits on its western shore, a settlement so small the label can get away with a Roman numeral. In this case the III means a third spot among a cluster of lake access points, so what you are really visiting is the shoreline between Attersee village and Weyregg, where the water is startlingly clear and the mountains stand up behind the opposite bank.
Read the complete Abtsdorf III write-up.
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Abtsdorf III, about halfway. Next is Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
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Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg sits at 185 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abtsdorf III.
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Read the complete Abtsdorf III write-up.
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back through Abtsdorf III comes up 231 km in. Next is back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
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Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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278 km in you reach back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. Next is back through See.
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Read the complete See write-up.
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back through See, late in the day. Next is Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
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The route ends here after 396 km.
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 → Abtsdorf III is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abtsdorf III → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → back through Abtsdorf III is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abtsdorf III → back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.