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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From Valtice it runs 355 km to Valtice; allow about 5 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Tugendhat Villa in Brno, The Jewish Cemetery, Historic Centre of Telč and back through The Jewish Cemetery. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Lednice-Valtice landscape is what happens when a very rich family decides to make a whole district into a garden. For centuries the Liechtenstein dynasty owned this corner of southern Moravia, near the border with Austria, and from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century they reshaped it, planting woods, digging ponds and building follies, until castles, parks, canals and farmland were composed into one huge designed scene about two hundred square kilometres in area. UNESCO listed it as a cultural landscape in 1996.
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Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is where the day begins. 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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Tugendhat Villa in Brno comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Jewish Cemetery.
On a hillside above the Jihlava river in Třebíč, thousands of gravestones stand among trees, some upright, some leaning, some covered in ivy and moss, their Hebrew inscriptions weathered by centuries. The Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in the Czech Republic, founded in the seventeenth century and used until the Second World War, and it is part of the World Heritage listing of the Jewish quarter and St. Procopius' basilica in Třebíč, inscribed in 2003, the first Jewish monument outside Israel to be listed.
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about 141 km into the recorded legs you reach The Jewish Cemetery. Next is Historic Centre of Telč.
Ride into the main square of Telč for the first time and you may laugh out loud, because it looks too perfect to be real. A long, tapering square is lined on both sides by Renaissance and Baroque houses, each with a different gable, painted in soft pastels, cream, pink, green and yellow, with arcades running along the ground floor. After a fire in the sixteenth century, the town was rebuilt under its lord, Zachariáš of Hradec, who had travelled in Italy and brought back a taste for Renaissance style. His château, at the end of the square, has richly decorated halls and a garden. The historic centre was listed by UNESCO in 1992.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Telč write-up.
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Historic Centre of Telč, about halfway. Next is back through The Jewish Cemetery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Jewish Cemetery write-up.
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back through The Jewish Cemetery sits at 247 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tugendhat Villa in Brno write-up.
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back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno comes up about 291 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape closes the day.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tugendhat Villa in Brno → The Jewish Cemetery is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Jewish Cemetery → Historic Centre of Telč is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Telč → back through The Jewish Cemetery is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Jewish Cemetery → back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.