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 399 km round trip from Brno - roughly 6 h 02 in the saddle. It goes by way of Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus, Baden bei Wien and back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus. It crosses from Czechia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 88 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
When the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a house for the young couple Grete and Fritz Tugendhat in Brno at the end of the 1920s, he created one of the masterpieces of modern architecture. Completed in 1930, the villa sits on a slope above the city, with a vast open-plan living room enclosed by glass walls that could be lowered into the floor, a wall of onyx, and chrome-plated steel columns. It was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2001, and it remains one of the most influential houses of the twentieth century.
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Tugendhat Villa in Brno is where the day begins. Next is Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
The princes of Liechtenstein owned this corner of southern Moravia for centuries, and they treated it as a canvas. Over more than three hundred years they shaped a landscape of about 200 square kilometres between the towns of Lednice and Valtice, with palaces, hunting lodges, ponds, avenues and follies set out as part of a single garden. UNESCO listed it in 1996 as one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe, and the effect is that you pass from one scene to another as if you were walking through a painting.
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Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus.
Klosterneuburg Abbey rises on a terrace above the Danube just north of Vienna, its baroque domes topped with an imperial crown and an archducal hat, and few visitors realise that beneath its walls lie the remains of a Roman fort. The Romans guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier, the Limes, with a chain of forts, and Klosterneuburg's position on a hill overlooking the river made it an obvious choice. The fort and the civil settlement around it are part of the UNESCO site of the Danube Limes, inscribed in 2021.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus. Next is Baden bei Wien.
The Romans already knew about the hot sulphur springs at Baden, just south of Vienna, but it was in the early nineteenth century that the town became the summer playground of the Habsburg court. Emperor Franz I spent his summers here, and the aristocracy and the wealthy bourgeoisie followed, building elegant villas, parks and bathhouses in the Biedermeier style. Beethoven came to take the waters too, staying many times and working on his Ninth Symphony in a house that is now a museum. In 2021, Baden was listed by UNESCO as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe, alongside Bath, Baden-Baden, Karlovy Vary and others.
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Baden bei Wien, about halfway. Next is back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus.
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back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus sits at 263 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape write-up.
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back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape comes up about 343 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tugendhat Villa in Brno.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Tugendhat Villa in Brno closes the day.
Tugendhat Villa in Brno → Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus → Baden bei Wien is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baden bei Wien → back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus → back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape → Tugendhat Villa in Brno is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.