Why this ride
A 249 km round trip from Kroměříž - roughly 3 h 10 in the saddle. On the way it passes Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape and back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Pleasure Garden and Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 249 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 10
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. 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. Pleasure Garden
Kroměříž is a small, handsome town on the Morava in the Haná country, the flat and fertile middle of Moravia, and its Pleasure Garden, the Květná zahrada, is a surprise to anyone who arrives expecting a quiet agricultural place. It was laid out in the seventeenth century for a prince-bishop of Olomouc, Karl Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, who wanted a formal Baroque garden with clipped hedges, parterres and a long colonnade, and the pattern has been preserved with unusual faithfulness. The garden is on the World Heritage list together with the castle.
Read the complete Pleasure Garden write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Pleasure Garden 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 70 km in. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
3. 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
140 km in you reach Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape. 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 Pleasure Garden.
5. Pleasure Garden
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pleasure Garden write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Pleasure Garden. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Pleasure Garden to Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Pleasure Garden → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tugendhat Villa in Brno to Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape to back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno to Pleasure Garden
back through Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Pleasure Garden is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.