CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Olomouc it runs 345 km to Olomouc; allow about 4 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Castle Garden and Castle, Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape and back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 46 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Olomouc is the city Prague forgot to overshadow. For centuries before the Habsburgs shifted their attention elsewhere it was the capital of Moravia, and the proof is on the Upper Square, where the Holy Trinity Column rises out of the cobbles like a stone wedding cake. It was built in the first half of the eighteenth century, roughly between 1716 and 1754, and it is among the largest Baroque sculpture groups in central Europe. The city raised it partly as thanks for surviving a plague, and UNESCO listed it in 2000. Walk round it and the saints keep appearing, each one a little more theatrical than the last.
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Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is where the day begins. Next is Castle Garden and Castle.
The Archbishop's palace at Kromeriz is a place where a bishop's idea of heaven became a garden. The prince-bishops of Olomouc, who ruled much of Moravia, made Kromeriz their summer residence, and in the seventeenth century they rebuilt the castle and laid out two gardens in the Baroque style. UNESCO listed the palace and the gardens in 1998. The Flower Garden is a formal garden with clipped hedges, fountains, and a long colonnade that is one of the finest in central Europe, while the larger Castle Garden beside the palace is a landscape park of lawns, trees and ponds.
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Castle Garden and Castle comes up 62 km in. Next is Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
When the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a house for the young couple Grete and Fritz Tugendhat in Brno at the end of the 1920s, he created one of the masterpieces of modern architecture. Completed in 1930, the villa sits on a slope above the city, with a vast open-plan living room enclosed by glass walls that could be lowered into the floor, a wall of onyx, and chrome-plated steel columns. It was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2001, and it remains one of the most influential houses of the twentieth century.
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125 km in you reach Tugendhat Villa in Brno. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
The princes of Liechtenstein owned this corner of southern Moravia for centuries, and they treated it as a canvas. Over more than three hundred years they shaped a landscape of about 200 square kilometres between the towns of Lednice and Valtice, with palaces, hunting lodges, ponds, avenues and follies set out as part of a single garden. UNESCO listed it in 1996 as one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe, and the effect is that you pass from one scene to another as if you were walking through a painting.
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Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, about halfway. Next is back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
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back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno sits at 249 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castle Garden and Castle.
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back through Castle Garden and Castle comes up 312 km in. Next is Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc closes the day.
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc → Castle Garden and Castle is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castle Garden and Castle → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno → back through Castle Garden and Castle is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Castle Garden and Castle → Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.