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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421 km from Prien am Chiemsee to Prien am Chiemsee, about 6 h 05 of riding. The stops in between: Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, See, Abtsdorf III and back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Germany into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 41 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.
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.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach See. Next is 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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Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, about halfway. 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 sits at 199 km, 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 comes up about 265 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through See.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete See write-up.
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about 307 km into the recorded legs you reach back through See. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, late in the day. Next is Herrenchiemsee New Palace.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Herrenchiemsee New Palace write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 421 km.
Herrenchiemsee New Palace → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → 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 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Abtsdorf III is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See → back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Herrenchiemsee New Palace is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.