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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302 km from Prien am Chiemsee to Prien am Chiemsee, about 4 h 18 of riding. On the way it passes Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur 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 Germany into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The ride follows Herrenchiemsee New Palace → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg for 72 km.
71 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 Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
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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about 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. 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.
Back at Herrenchiemsee New Palace. That is the ride.
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 → Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Herrenchiemsee New Palace is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.