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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 290 km round trip from Komárno - roughly 3 h 52 in the saddle. The stops in between: Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, Rusovce - Gerulata and back through Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - 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. 52 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Danube makes a border here, and so it did two thousand years ago. On the north bank, at Iža in what is now Slovakia, stood the Roman fort of Celemantia, and on the south bank, near Almásfüzitő, another fort called Azaum guarded the Pannonian shore. Together they were part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier of the Roman Empire, and UNESCO listed sections of it in 2021. Close by, at Szőny, lay Brigetio, a legionary base and a real town with an amphitheatre. The river was the road, the wall and the defence all in one, and the legions patrolled it in boats.
Read the complete Iža - “Kelemantia” write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Iža - “Kelemantia” is where the day begins. Next is Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma.
Pannonhalma Archabbey stands on a hill above the Hungarian plain, and it has been standing there, in one form or another, for a thousand years. The Benedictine monastery was founded in 996, during the reign of Prince Géza, and its monks helped to bring Christianity to the young Hungarian state. The abbey is called the Mons Sacer Pannoniae, the holy mountain of Pannonia, and the local tradition holds that Saint Martin of Tours was born in the Roman town that stood nearby. UNESCO listed it in 1996, the thousandth anniversary of its foundation.
Read the complete Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rusovce - Gerulata.
Three countries meet in the fields south of Bratislava, and the Romans had a fort here long before anybody drew those borders. Gerulata was an auxiliary fort on the Danube frontier, in what is now Rusovce, a district at the southern edge of the Slovak capital. Its remains have been excavated, and a small museum displays foundations and finds, from coins to pottery and gravestones. The site is part of the Danube Limes listed by UNESCO, a frontier that ran from Germany to the Black Sea.
Read the complete Rusovce - Gerulata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Rusovce - Gerulata. Next is back through Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, late in the day. Next is Iža - “Kelemantia”.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iža - “Kelemantia” write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Iža - “Kelemantia”. That is the ride.
Iža - “Kelemantia” → Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma → Rusovce - Gerulata is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rusovce - Gerulata → back through Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma → Iža - “Kelemantia” is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.