CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 162 km round trip from Spitz - roughly 2 h 59 in the saddle. The stops in between: Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert, Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm, Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus and back through Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm. The line favours views over speed.
For 31 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
27 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Between Melk and Krems, the Danube runs through a valley of steep terraced vineyards, apricot orchards and tiny medieval towns, and the whole stretch is a UNESCO cultural landscape. The Wachau is one of the most beautiful river valleys in Europe, and it has been shaped by human hands for two thousand years. Walls of dry stone hold the terraces in place, and above them, forests climb to the plateau. The vineyards produce some of Austria's best white wines, mostly Gruner Veltliner and Riesling, and the orchards produce the Marille, the apricot, which blossoms in April and is made into jam, schnapps and dumplings in July.
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Wachau Cultural Landscape is where the day begins. Next is Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert.
Traismauer is a small wine town on the south side of the Danube, just where the Traisen river comes down from the Alpine foothills to meet the big river, and it has been a fortified place for something like eighteen centuries. The Romans called their fort here Augustianis, one link in the chain of camps and watchtowers that guarded the frontier of the province of Noricum. In 2021 the Danube Limes was added to the UNESCO list, and Traismauer is one of the places where you can still see the old walls doing a job.
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Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert comes up 30 km in. Next is Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Egon Schiele was born in Tulln in 1890, in the station building where his father was stationmaster, and the town that produced one of the most provocative painters of Viennese modernism is today a quiet, prosperous place on the Danube, known as Austria's garden town. Long before that, it was the Roman fort of Comagena, part of the frontier along the Danube that protected the Roman province of Noricum. One of the fort's towers has survived remarkably well: the so-called Salzturm, a horseshoe-shaped tower on the riverbank, one of the best-preserved Roman structures in Austria. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
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60 km in you reach Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm. 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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Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus, about halfway. Next is back through Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
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back through Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm sits at 119 km, about halfway. Next is back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert.
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back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert comes up 149 km in. Next is Wachau Cultural Landscape.
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Wachau Cultural Landscape closes the day.
Wachau Cultural Landscape → Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert → Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm → Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus → back through Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm → back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert → Wachau Cultural Landscape is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.