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.
From Linz it runs 106 km to Linz; allow about 1 h 53 of riding. The stops in between: Enns - Canabae Nordwest, Wallsee - Kastell and back through Enns - Canabae Nordwest. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
27 km on Enns - Canabae Nordwest → Wallsee - Kastell.
Linz is a city that has reinvented itself. For much of the twentieth century it was known mainly for its steelworks and its uncomfortable links with the Nazi period; today it markets itself as a city of culture and technology, with the Ars Electronica centre glowing on the Danube bank at night, the Lentos art museum opposite, and a lively music scene. The Schlossberg, the castle hill above the old town, is where it all began: the Romans had a fort here called Lentia, part of the Danube frontier of the empire, and the Danube Limes is now on the World Heritage list. The castle that stands there now dates largely from the Renaissance, built for Emperor Frederick III, who spent his last years in Linz and died here in 1493. It houses a branch of the Upper Austrian state museum.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is where the day begins. Next is Enns - Canabae Nordwest.
Enns claims to be the oldest town in Austria, and it has some evidence. The town received city rights in 1212, but people have lived here since long before that. The Romans built a legionary fortress on this spot, called Lauriacum, in the second century, and it was home to the Second Italic Legion, one of the units that guarded the Danube frontier. The civilian settlement that grew up outside the walls, known as the canabae, held traders, craftsmen and families, and the whole complex became a major provincial centre.
Read the complete Enns - Canabae Nordwest write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Enns - Canabae Nordwest comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wallsee - Kastell.
Wallsee is one of those Danube villages that people cycle through on the long riverside path without guessing how much history sits under their tyres. A castle rises on a rock above the river, and beneath and around the village lie the remains of a Roman fort that guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier. It is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021, which follows the river from Bavaria through Austria to Slovakia, a line of forts, watchtowers and towns that held the northern edge of the empire for centuries.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Wallsee - Kastell. Next is back through Enns - Canabae Nordwest.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Canabae Nordwest write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Enns - Canabae Nordwest, late in the day. Next is Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg. That is the ride.
Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg → Enns - Canabae Nordwest is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Enns - Canabae Nordwest → Wallsee - Kastell is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wallsee - Kastell → back through Enns - Canabae Nordwest is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Enns - Canabae Nordwest → Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.