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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158 km from Innerschwand to Innerschwand, about 2 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Litzlberg Süd, Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg and back through Litzlberg Süd. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 22 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
55 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
Read the complete See write-up.
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See is where the day begins. Next is Litzlberg Süd.
Attersee is the largest lake lying entirely within Austria, and the water is so clear and clean that boats seem to hang over their own shadows. It lies in the Salzkammergut, the lake district east of Salzburg, ringed by forested hills and with the limestone wall of the Hollengebirge at its southern end. Litzlberg sits on the western shore, a short way from Seewalchen, where the lake narrows and the shoreline is a mix of meadows, reed beds and villas with boathouses. It is a place that people have lived since the Stone Age, and the lake bed here holds the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings that are part of the UNESCO listing for such sites around the Alps.
Read the complete Litzlberg Süd write-up.
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Litzlberg Süd comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Salzburg's old town is a stage set that happens to be real. Squeezed between the river Salzach and the steep rock of the Mönchsberg, it packs baroque domes, church towers and tall merchants' houses into a few dense streets, while the white walls of Hohensalzburg fortress sit high above everything like a lid on a jewellery box. The city has around a hundred and fifty thousand people, yet the centre still feels small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. Next is back through Litzlberg Süd.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Litzlberg Süd write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Litzlberg Süd, late in the day. Next is See.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete See write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at See. That is the ride.
See → Litzlberg Süd is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Litzlberg Süd → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → back through Litzlberg Süd is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Litzlberg Süd → See is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.