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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 155 km round trip from Petrodvorets - roughly 2 h 34 in the saddle. The stops in between: The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag, Tallinskoe Highway, The Otdelny Park and back through Tallinskoe Highway. The line favours views over speed.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 25 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Peterhof is the tsars' answer to Versailles, strung along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland about thirty kilometres west of St Petersburg, and Sergievka belongs to its quieter western fringe. Think of it less as one famous building than as a country estate in the old Peterhof manner, with a house, an overgrown park, ponds and lawns, laid out when noble families built summer retreats close to the court.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» is where the day begins. Next is The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Ropsha is one of those places where the scenery is gentle and the history is anything but. The village sits on the low Izhora Upland southwest of St Petersburg, between Krasnoe Selo and the coast road at Lomonosov, and the palace that gives the estate its name looks down over a chain of spring-fed ponds and a slow, wooded park. It was here, in July 1762, that the freshly deposed Emperor Peter III was held after his wife Catherine seized the throne, and here that he died a few days later under circumstances nobody at court cared to explain. Catherine became "the Great"; Ropsha became a footnote with a chill on it.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag write-up.
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The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tallinskoe Highway.
Not every historic road is a pretty one, and the Tallinn highway on the south-western edge of St Petersburg is not trying to win prizes for charm. It is, however, one of the old imperial routes out of the capital, the road toward Narva and Reval, today's Tallinn, and as such it forms part of the UNESCO listing of the historic centre of St Petersburg and its related monuments, which includes the network of roads tying the city to its palaces and estates. Along it, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries planted suburban residences, military camps and post stations.
Read the complete Tallinskoe Highway write-up.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Tallinskoe Highway. Next is The Otdelny Park.
Pavlovsk and Pushkin sit side by side on the plain south of Saint Petersburg, and both grew from the imperial taste for country palaces. Pushkin was once Tsarskoye Selo, the Tsar's Village, where Catherine the Great had a palace of blue and white with a facade that stretches for hundreds of metres, and where the Amber Room once stood. Pavlovsk was a smaller palace for her son Paul, set in one of the largest landscape parks in Europe. The name means separate or detached, and it points to a part of the landscape set apart from the main royal grounds.
Read the complete The Otdelny Park write-up.
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The Otdelny Park, about halfway. Next is back through Tallinskoe Highway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tallinskoe Highway write-up.
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back through Tallinskoe Highway sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag comes up about 126 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» closes the day.
The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» → The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → Tallinskoe Highway is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tallinskoe Highway → The Otdelny Park is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Otdelny Park → back through Tallinskoe Highway is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tallinskoe Highway → back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.