Why this ride
From Lednice it runs 272 km to Lednice; allow about 3 h 44 of riding. The stops in between: Tugendhat Villa in Brno, The Jewish Cemetery and back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape and The Jewish Cemetery · 272 km from Lednice
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 272 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 44
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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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. 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
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 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 about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Jewish Cemetery.
3. 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.
Read the complete The Jewish Cemetery write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach The Jewish Cemetery. 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 Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
5. Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
Back at Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape to Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tugendhat Villa in Brno to The Jewish Cemetery
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 to back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno
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 to Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.