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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343 km from Sankt Aegidi to Sankt Aegidi, about 6 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Historic Centre of Český Krumlov, Albing - Legionslager and back through Historic Centre of Český Krumlov. It crosses from Austria into Czechia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Danube between Passau and Linz is one of the loveliest stretches of the whole river, and near Oberranna, on the Upper Austrian bank, it flows quietly between steep wooded slopes, dark and almost gorge-like. Here, beside the water, archaeologists found a small Roman fort, a Kleinkastell, part of the Danube Limes that guarded the northern frontier of the province of Noricum. Its remains are now protected under a modern shelter, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire along the Danube.
Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Oberranna - Kleinkastell is where the day begins. Next is Historic Centre of Český Krumlov.
Český Krumlov is shaped by a river. The Vltava makes a series of tight S-bends in a rocky valley in south Bohemia, and the old town sits in one of the loops, with a castle on a cliff above it, so that the whole place feels like a stage set. The castle is the second largest in the Czech Republic, with a round tower painted in Renaissance style, a bridge across the moat where brown bears live, and a Baroque theatre from the seventeenth century that still has its original stage machinery. The town was owned by the Rožmberk family and later the Schwarzenbergs, and the painter Egon Schiele lived here for a time in 1911. UNESCO listed the historic centre in 1992.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Český Krumlov write-up.
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Historic Centre of Český Krumlov comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Albing - Legionslager.
There is almost nothing to see at Albing, and that is exactly what makes it a good story. Under these fields near the confluence of the Enns and the Danube lay one of the largest Roman military bases ever built in what is now Austria, a full legionary fortress raised in the later second century, around the time of the Marcomannic Wars, when Rome was fighting hard to hold the Danube against peoples from the north. It was planned on a grand scale and then, it seems, given up very soon after, probably because the site was too exposed to floods. The legion moved a few kilometres south to Lauriacum, the camp at today's Enns.
Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Albing - Legionslager. Next is back through Historic Centre of Český Krumlov.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Český Krumlov write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historic Centre of Český Krumlov, late in the day. Next is Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Oberranna - Kleinkastell. That is the ride.
Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Historic Centre of Český Krumlov is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov → Albing - Legionslager is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Albing - Legionslager → back through Historic Centre of Český Krumlov is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of Český Krumlov → Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.