CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Salzburg it runs 403 km to Salzburg; allow about 6 h 41 of riding. The stops in between: See, Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur, Kalkalpen - Urlach and back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 42 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
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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 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 51 km in. 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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101 km in you reach Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. Next is Kalkalpen - Urlach.
Somewhere in these forests a beech tree has been standing since before anyone thought to draw a border here, and the Kalkalpen National Park exists largely to keep it that way. This is the largest protected forest area in Austria, spread across the limestone ranges of the Sengsengebirge and the Reichraminger Hintergebirge in Upper Austria, and parts of it belong to the UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe. Urlach lies on the edge of that wild country, in the folds above the Steyr valley between Molln and Windischgarsten.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Urlach write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Urlach, about halfway. Next is back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
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Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
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back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur sits at 203 km, about halfway. Next is back through See.
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Read the complete See write-up.
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back through See comes up 253 km in. 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 closes the day.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → See is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
See → Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → Kalkalpen - Urlach is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Urlach → back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → back through See is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.