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 162 km round trip from Innere Stadt - roughly 3 h in the saddle. It goes by way of Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm, Zwentendorf - Kastell, Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich and back through Zwentendorf - Kastell. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 29 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Vienna's historic centre has been rebuilt many times, but it never lost its sense of itself as the capital of an empire. The medieval city grew around the cathedral of St Stephen, whose patterned tile roof and soaring south tower have dominated the skyline since the fourteenth century, and later the Habsburgs added the Hofburg palace, the baroque palaces of the nobility and the grand squares. In the 1850s, the old city walls were pulled down and replaced by the Ringstrasse, a wide boulevard lined with the Opera, the Parliament, the university, the city hall and the museums, all in historic styles, which is itself a part of the listed ensemble.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Vienna write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of Vienna is where the day begins. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Zeiselmauer is a village that grew up inside a Roman fort, and it never quite moved out. The late Roman fort of Cannabiaca guarded this stretch of the Danube near Tulln, part of the frontier of the province of Noricum, and its walls, gate and towers were absorbed into the village over the centuries. One of the best-preserved features is a horseshoe-shaped tower, typical of late Roman fortifications, and a later fortlet within the fort, with walls standing several metres high, is one of the most impressive Roman buildings in Austria. Zeiselmauer is part of the Danube Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zwentendorf - Kastell.
The Danube flows broad and brown past Zwentendorf, a quiet village on the Tullnerfeld plain west of Vienna, and for once the most famous building in the area is not the oldest one. Zwentendorf is where Austria built a nuclear power station in the 1970s and then, after a national referendum in 1978, decided never to switch it on. The plant still stands by the river, complete and unused, now a training site and a curiosity.
Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Zwentendorf - Kastell. Next is Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
In the fifth century, as Roman authority along the Danube collapsed, a holy man named Severinus lived at a place called Favianis, organising food supplies, ransoming captives and negotiating with barbarian kings on behalf of the remaining Roman population. His biography, written by his disciple Eugippius, is one of the most vivid accounts of the end of Roman rule in central Europe, and Favianis is generally identified with Mautern, a small town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems. The Roman fort here, parts of which survive in the town walls, is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
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Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich, about halfway. Next is back through Zwentendorf - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zwentendorf - Kastell sits at 116 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm comes up about 137 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of Vienna.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Vienna write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of Vienna closes the day.
Historic Centre of Vienna → Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm → Zwentendorf - Kastell is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zwentendorf - Kastell → Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → back through Zwentendorf - Kastell is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zwentendorf - Kastell → back through Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm → Historic Centre of Vienna is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.