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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143 km from Hillerød to Hillerød, about 2 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Roskilde Cathedral and back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 47 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Hillerød is the town where the Danish kings built their most ambitious castle, and the roads around it carry some of the best light in northern Zealand. Frederiksborg Castle stands on three small islands in a lake, a red-brick and sandstone Renaissance palace with towers, spires and a copper roof turned green. King Christian IV, who rebuilt it in the early seventeenth century, was a builder of grand projects and a lover of show, and he made Frederiksborg a stage for royal life. Today it houses the Museum of National History, and its gardens in the baroque style stretch away in terraces.
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Tolvkarlevej and Højager is where the day begins. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
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Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roskilde Cathedral.
Roskilde Cathedral is where Denmark keeps its kings. Since the fifteenth century, almost every Danish monarch has been buried here, and the chapels and crypts hold around forty kings and queens, from medieval stone tombs to ornate baroque sarcophagi and modern designs. The cathedral itself, begun in the late twelfth century under Bishop Absalon, the warrior-churchman who also founded Copenhagen, was one of the first big brick Gothic churches in Scandinavia, and it set the style for church building across the region. UNESCO listed it in 1995. Inside, look for the clock with the figure of St George slaying the dragon, which strikes the hour, and the pillar where royal visitors have marked their height.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Roskilde Cathedral. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, late in the day. Next is Tolvkarlevej and Højager.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tolvkarlevej and Højager write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tolvkarlevej and Højager. That is the ride.
Tolvkarlevej and Højager → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Roskilde Cathedral is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roskilde Cathedral → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Tolvkarlevej and Højager is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.