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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A 304 km round trip from Český Krumlov - roughly 5 h 17 in the saddle. The stops in between: Schlögen - Kastell, Enns - Gräberstraße and back through Schlögen - Kastell. It crosses from Czechia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Český Krumlov is shaped by a river. The Vltava makes a series of tight S-bends in a rocky valley in south Bohemia, and the old town sits in one of the loops, with a castle on a cliff above it, so that the whole place feels like a stage set. The castle is the second largest in the Czech Republic, with a round tower painted in Renaissance style, a bridge across the moat where brown bears live, and a Baroque theatre from the seventeenth century that still has its original stage machinery. The town was owned by the Rožmberk family and later the Schwarzenbergs, and the painter Egon Schiele lived here for a time in 1911. UNESCO listed the historic centre in 1992.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Český Krumlov write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov is where the day begins. Next is Schlögen - Kastell.
The Danube here performs one of its most famous tricks. Forced by hard granite, the river makes two tight hairpin turns, the Schlögener Schlinge, doubling back on itself in a loop so neat it looks drawn with a compass. From the viewpoint on the wooded slope above, a short walk from the road, you look down on the river curling around a forested spur, and it is one of the classic images of Upper Austria.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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Schlögen - Kastell comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Enns - Gräberstraße.
Enns claims to be the oldest town in Austria, on the strength of a charter granted in 1212, but its roots go much deeper. Just outside the modern town lay Lauriacum, a Roman legionary fortress that housed the Second Italian Legion and grew into one of the most important places on the Danube frontier, with a civilian town, temples and, as the Gräberstraße name suggests, roads lined with cemeteries. The Romans buried their dead along the roads outside settlements, and excavations here have found hundreds of graves, stones and offerings. The site is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Enns - Gräberstraße write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 162 km into the recorded legs you reach Enns - Gräberstraße. Next is back through Schlögen - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Schlögen - Kastell, late in the day. Next is Historic Centre of Český Krumlov.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Český Krumlov write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic Centre of Český Krumlov. That is the ride.
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov → Schlögen - Kastell is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Schlögen - Kastell → Enns - Gräberstraße is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Enns - Gräberstraße → back through Schlögen - Kastell is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Schlögen - Kastell → Historic Centre of Český Krumlov is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.