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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A 331 km round trip from Traismauer - roughly 4 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn, Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape and back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn. The line favours views over speed.
75 km on Traismauer - Kleinkastell → Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn.
Traismauer is a small town with a very long memory. Before it was a market town on the Traisen river, it was the Roman fort of Augustianis, one of the posts on the Noricum stretch of the Danube frontier, and some of the Roman wall still stands in the town. The Kleinkastell, the small fort, is part of that chain: a compact stone enclosure, a few watchtowers and a garrison, one of the many modest strongpoints that made the limes more than a line on a map.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Traismauer - Kleinkastell is where the day begins. Next is Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn.
Schönbrunn was the summer residence of the Habsburgs, the dynasty that ruled a large part of Europe for centuries. The palace, on the western edge of Vienna, was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the eighteenth century under Empress Maria Theresa, and it has more than a thousand rooms. It began as a hunting lodge on land where, legend says, Emperor Matthias found a beautiful spring, the schöner Brunnen that gave the place its name. The gardens are vast and formal, with avenues of trees, fountains, statues, a maze, and the Gloriette, a colonnaded structure on the hill above the palace with views over Vienna. The palace and gardens were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1996.
Read the complete Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn write-up.
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Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
The Neusiedler See, Fertő in Hungarian, is a strange lake. It is huge, over three hundred square kilometres of water stretching from Austria across the border into Hungary, but almost nowhere is it deeper than a couple of metres, and a vast belt of reeds surrounds much of it, so that from many places you cannot actually see the water. It has no natural outflow, its level depends on rain and evaporation, and in the 1860s it dried out completely for several years, with farmers ploughing the lakebed. The lake and the villages around it were listed by UNESCO in 2001 as a cultural landscape shaped by thousands of years of human life on the border between Alpine and steppe worlds.
Read the complete Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape write-up.
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about 166 km into the recorded legs you reach Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape. Next is back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn, late in the day. Next is Traismauer - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Traismauer - Kleinkastell. That is the ride.
Traismauer - Kleinkastell → Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn → Traismauer - Kleinkastell is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.