Why this ride
A 273 km round trip from Olomouc - roughly 3 h 35 in the saddle. On the way it passes Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape and back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc and Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 273 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 35
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
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.
Read the complete Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is where the day begins. Next is Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
2. 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.
Read the complete Tugendhat Villa in Brno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tugendhat Villa in Brno comes up 75 km in. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
3. 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.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
149 km in you reach Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape. Next is back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
4. back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tugendhat Villa in Brno write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno, late in the day. Next is Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc.
5. Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc to Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tugendhat Villa in Brno to Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
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 to back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno
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 to Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.