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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271 km from Innere Stadt to Innere Stadt, about 3 h 56 of riding. The stops in between: Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich, Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich, Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad and back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich. 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 47 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Vienna sits on top of an older city, and Vindobona was it. In the first century AD, the Romans built a legionary fortress here, on a bluff above the Danube, to guard the northern frontier of the empire. A civilian settlement, the canabae, grew up beside it, with taverns, workshops and homes for the families of soldiers, and the area to the southwest of the fortress was part of that sprawl. Today the streets of the inner city still follow the lines of the Roman camp, and fragments of walls and baths lie beneath cellars and basements.
Read the complete Wien - Canabae Südwest write-up.
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Wien - Canabae Südwest is where the day begins. Next is Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich.
The Nibelungenlied, the great medieval German epic, sends Kriemhild down the Danube to marry Etzel, king of the Huns, and has her meet him at Tulln, which says something about the town's importance on the river for centuries. Long before that, the Romans built a cavalry fort here called Comagena, and its walls still lurk beneath the town centre. The best survival is the Salzturm, a tower by the river whose lower parts are Roman, among the best preserved Roman structures in Austria. The fort is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
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Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
In the fifth century, as Roman authority along the Danube collapsed, a holy man named Severinus lived at a place called Favianis, organising food supplies, ransoming captives and negotiating with barbarian kings on behalf of the remaining Roman population. His biography, written by his disciple Eugippius, is one of the most vivid accounts of the end of Roman rule in central Europe, and Favianis is generally identified with Mautern, a small town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems. The Roman fort here, parts of which survive in the town walls, is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
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about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich. Next is Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad.
Pöchlarn is a small town on the south bank of the Danube, a few kilometres upstream from Melk, where the river is broad and slow and the Wachau valley is about to begin. The Romans called it Arelape and kept a fort here on the frontier of the empire, with a civilian settlement, the vicus, and a bathhouse for the garrison. Not much is visible above ground, but the town is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage site, which traces that long line of forts and watchtowers through Austria.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad write-up.
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Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad, about halfway. Next is back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
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Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
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back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich comes up about 227 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wien - Canabae Südwest.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wien - Canabae Südwest write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Wien - Canabae Südwest closes the day.
Wien - Canabae Südwest → Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → Wien - Canabae Südwest is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.