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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321 km from Český Krumlov to Český Krumlov, about 5 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Schlögen - Kastell, Passau Haibach - Burgus, Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus and back through Passau Haibach - Burgus. It crosses Czechia, Austria and Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 43 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 Passau Haibach - Burgus.
Passau sits where three rivers meet, the Danube, the Inn and the Ilz, and from the high point of the Oberhaus fortress you can see their colours run side by side before mixing: green from the Inn, blue-grey from the Danube, and dark from the Ilz, which flows down from the Bavarian Forest stained by peat. The Romans knew this spot well. They had a fort here called Batavis, named after a unit of Batavian soldiers from the Rhine delta, and another at Boiotro across the Inn, and along the Danube downstream they built small fortified towers called burgi to watch the river and signal to each other. One of these late Roman burgi stood near Haibach, and its remains are part of the Danube Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Passau Haibach - Burgus. Next is Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus.
Künzing sits on the Danube in Lower Bavaria, in a broad, fertile plain known as the Gäuboden, and in Roman times it was a place with a name, Quintana. The Romans built a fort here in the second century, one of the posts on the river frontier of the province of Raetia, and a civilian settlement, a vicus, grew up beside it, with houses, workshops and even an amphitheatre. The Danube Limes in Germany, Austria and Slovakia was listed by UNESCO in 2021, and Künzing is one of the places where it is easiest to grasp what daily life along the frontier was like.
Read the complete Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus write-up.
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Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus, about halfway. Next is back through Passau Haibach - Burgus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
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back through Passau Haibach - Burgus sits at 213 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 243 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov closes the day.
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 → Passau Haibach - Burgus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Passau Haibach - Burgus → Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus → back through Passau Haibach - Burgus is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Passau Haibach - Burgus → back through Schlögen - Kastell is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.