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 Pannonhalma it runs 477 km to Pannonhalma; allow about 5 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Rusovce - Gerulata, Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape and back through Rusovce - Gerulata. It crosses Hungary, Slovakia and Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The ride follows Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape for 154 km.
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.
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Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma is where the day begins. 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.
Rusovce - Gerulata comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
The Neusiedler See, Fertő in Hungarian, is a strange lake. It is huge, over three hundred square kilometres of water stretching from Austria across the border into Hungary, but almost nowhere is it deeper than a couple of metres, and a vast belt of reeds surrounds much of it, so that from many places you cannot actually see the water. It has no natural outflow, its level depends on rain and evaporation, and in the 1860s it dried out completely for several years, with farmers ploughing the lakebed. The lake and the villages around it were listed by UNESCO in 2001 as a cultural landscape shaped by thousands of years of human life on the border between Alpine and steppe worlds.
Read the complete Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape. Next is back through Rusovce - Gerulata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rusovce - Gerulata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Rusovce - Gerulata, late in the day. Next is 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 at Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma. That is the ride.
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 → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 154 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → back through Rusovce - Gerulata is 154 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rusovce - Gerulata → Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.