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 212 km round trip from Spangen - roughly 3 h 24 in the saddle. The stops in between: Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust, Fort near Heemstede, Works along the IJ before Diemerdam and back through Fort near Heemstede. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 25 km this is Zeeland Delta Works Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Van Nelle factory, on the edge of Rotterdam, is one of the most beautiful industrial buildings ever made. Built between 1925 and 1931 for a company that processed coffee, tea and tobacco, it is a long, light building of glass and steel, with curtain walls that let daylight flood into the workspaces. The designers, Johannes Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt, created what became an icon of modernist architecture, a factory of light and air for its workers. It was added to the UNESCO list in 2014.
Read the complete Van Nellefabriek write-up.
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Van Nellefabriek is where the day begins. Next is Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust.
In the year 47, a Roman general with time on his hands and a restless army decided to dig a canal. The Roman historian Tacitus records that Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, the commander on the Rhine frontier, kept his legions busy by having them cut a waterway of about twenty-three miles between the Rhine and the Meuse, so that ships could avoid the dangerous open sea. The Fossa Corbulonis, as it is known, probably linked the Old Rhine near Leiden with the Maas estuary, and its line seems to follow the later course of the Vliet, a waterway that still runs between Leiden and Delft. Scholars debate the exact route, but this area, between Voorburg and the Rozenrust district, is a natural candidate.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust write-up.
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Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort near Heemstede.
Between Haarlem and the bulb fields of the Dutch coast, near the town of Heemstede and the hamlet of De Glip, lies a squat, grassy fort surrounded by a moat. This is the Fort near Heemstede, built around the turn of the twentieth century as part of the Defence Line of Amsterdam, a ring of forts, dykes and flooding zones around the city, and now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort near Heemstede. Next is Works along the IJ before Diemerdam.
Just east of Amsterdam, where the city's suburbs give way to water and polders, a narrow strip of land runs out along the old shore of the IJ and the IJmeer toward Muiden. The Diemerdam is an old dike, and the works along the IJ before it are part of the Dutch Water Defence Lines, the system of forts, dikes, sluices and inundation fields that the Dutch built over centuries to defend their cities by flooding the land around them. The Defence Line of Amsterdam, a ring of forts around the capital, was listed by UNESCO in 1996 and later joined with the New Dutch Waterline into a single site.
Read the complete Works along the IJ before Diemerdam write-up.
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Works along the IJ before Diemerdam, about halfway. Next is back through Fort near Heemstede.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort near Heemstede write-up.
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back through Fort near Heemstede sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust write-up.
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back through Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is Van Nellefabriek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Van Nellefabriek write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Van Nellefabriek closes the day.
Van Nellefabriek → Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust → Fort near Heemstede is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort near Heemstede → Works along the IJ before Diemerdam is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Works along the IJ before Diemerdam → back through Fort near Heemstede is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort near Heemstede → back through Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Corbulo's canal | Rozenrust → Van Nellefabriek is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.