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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384 km from Bamberg to Bamberg, about 4 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, Watchtower WP 14/28 and back through Margravial Opera House Bayreuth. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Bamberg is built on seven hills, like Rome, and its townspeople are proud of the comparison. The old town survived the Second World War almost unscathed, which makes it unusual in Germany, and its jumble of medieval and Baroque streets, spread between the Regnitz river and the hills, is a World Heritage Site, listed in 1993. At the top of the cathedral hill stands the Kaiserdom, a four-towered Romanesque cathedral that holds the tomb of the Emperor Henry II, who founded the bishopric in the early eleventh century, and his wife Kunigunde. It also holds a mysterious medieval equestrian statue known as the Bamberg Horseman, whose identity is still debated.
Read the complete Town of Bamberg write-up.
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Town of Bamberg is where the day begins. Next is Margravial Opera House Bayreuth.
Bayreuth's Margravial Opera House is the sort of building that makes you wonder how a small provincial court could afford it. It was built between 1745 and 1750 for Margrave Frederick of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and his wife, Wilhelmine, the sister of Frederick the Great, who was a composer, writer and patron and the driving force behind the court's cultural life. The interior, designed by the Italian theatre architect Giuseppe Galli Bibiena and his son Carlo, is a Baroque jewel box of carved and painted wood, with gold and blue tiers, a royal box like a throne and a stage deep enough for elaborate scenery.
Read the complete Margravial Opera House Bayreuth write-up.
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Margravial Opera House Bayreuth comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 14/28.
Near the Franconian town of Pleinfeld, the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the frontier of the province of Raetia, crossed a landscape of woods, fields and small rivers, and a watchtower stood here, one of hundreds along the line. Watchtower WP 14/28 is now a low mound or reconstructed foundation, but it is part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier here was a stone wall, known locally as the Teufelsmauer, the devil's wall, because medieval villagers could not believe that humans had built it.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 14/28 write-up.
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about 187 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 14/28. Next is back through Margravial Opera House Bayreuth.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Margravial Opera House Bayreuth write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, late in the day. Next is Town of Bamberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town of Bamberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Town of Bamberg. That is the ride.
Town of Bamberg → Margravial Opera House Bayreuth is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth → Watchtower WP 14/28 is 124 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Watchtower WP 14/28 → back through Margravial Opera House Bayreuth is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Margravial Opera House Bayreuth → Town of Bamberg is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.