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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152 km from Deutsch Jahrndorf to Deutsch Jahrndorf, about 2 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Carnuntum - Legionslager, Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich and back through Carnuntum - Legionslager. It crosses from Slovakia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Rusovce - Gerulata is where the day begins. Next is Carnuntum - Legionslager.
Carnuntum was a Roman city, a legionary base and, for a time, a capital. The Fourteenth Legion, the Gemina, was stationed here from the first century, and the camp, with its great barracks and parade ground, guarded a crossing of the Danube where the Amber Road from the Baltic met the river. By the second century it was the capital of the province of Upper Pannonia, with an amphitheatre, baths and a population of tens of thousands. The emperor Marcus Aurelius is said to have spent part of the German wars here, and tradition holds that he wrote some of his Meditations in the camp.
Read the complete Carnuntum - Legionslager write-up.
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Carnuntum - Legionslager comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Under the Hoher Markt, one of the oldest squares in Vienna, lie the foundations of the Roman legionary fortress of Vindobona. The Tenth Legion was stationed here for centuries, guarding the Danube frontier, and the camp covered much of what is now the inner city. Its outline can still be traced in the pattern of streets: the curve of the Graben follows the line of the fortress moat, and the old Roman road toward the west became today's Herrengasse. A small museum on the Hoher Markt displays the remains of officers' houses, with their heating systems, and finds from the camp.
Read the complete Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich. Next is back through Carnuntum - Legionslager.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Carnuntum - Legionslager write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Carnuntum - Legionslager, late in the day. Next is 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 at Rusovce - Gerulata. That is the ride.
Rusovce - Gerulata → Carnuntum - Legionslager is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Carnuntum - Legionslager → Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wien - Legionslager Zentralbereich → back through Carnuntum - Legionslager is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Carnuntum - Legionslager → Rusovce - Gerulata is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.