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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444 km from Rimóc to Rimóc, about 5 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Andrássy Avenue and the Underground, Iža - “Kelemantia” and back through Andrássy Avenue and the Underground. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Hollókő is a village of about three hundred people in the Cserhát hills of northern Hungary, thirty-odd kilometres south of the Slovak border, and it is one of the few places in Europe where a whole way of life has been kept, not by a museum but by the people still living in the houses. It was one of the first places inscribed by UNESCO, in 1987, as a living example of a traditional village of the Palóc, a Hungarian ethnic group of this region.
Read the complete Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is where the day begins. Next is Andrássy Avenue and the Underground.
Andrássy Avenue is Budapest at its most confident. It was laid out in the 1870s as a grand boulevard from the city centre to the City Park, lined with neo-Renaissance mansions, embassies and the State Opera House, completed in 1884, and it runs straight and wide under rows of plane trees. UNESCO listed it in 2002, together with the first underground railway on the European continent, the Millennium Underground, which opened in 1896, a few years before the Paris metro, and runs just beneath the avenue.
Read the complete Andrássy Avenue and the Underground write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Andrássy Avenue and the Underground comes up about 118 km into the recorded legs. Next is Iža - “Kelemantia”.
The Danube makes a border here, and so it did two thousand years ago. On the north bank, at Iža in what is now Slovakia, stood the Roman fort of Celemantia, and on the south bank, near Almásfüzitő, another fort called Azaum guarded the Pannonian shore. Together they were part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier of the Roman Empire, and UNESCO listed sections of it in 2021. Close by, at Szőny, lay Brigetio, a legionary base and a real town with an amphitheatre. The river was the road, the wall and the defence all in one, and the legions patrolled it in boats.
Read the complete Iža - “Kelemantia” write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 221 km into the recorded legs you reach Iža - “Kelemantia”. Next is back through Andrássy Avenue and the Underground.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Andrássy Avenue and the Underground write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Andrássy Avenue and the Underground, late in the day. Next is Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding. That is the ride.
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding → Andrássy Avenue and the Underground is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Andrássy Avenue and the Underground → Iža - “Kelemantia” is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Iža - “Kelemantia” → back through Andrássy Avenue and the Underground is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Andrássy Avenue and the Underground → Old Village of Hollókő and its Surrounding is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.