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 278 km round trip from Woerden - roughly 4 h 17 in the saddle. It goes by way of Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan, Van Nellefabriek, Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo and back through Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 35 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Woerden is a small Dutch town on the Oude Rijn, the old Rhine, halfway between Utrecht and Leiden, in the middle of the Green Heart of Holland, a landscape of polders, meadows, ditches and cows. Its centre is a compact old town ringed by canals, with a castle, a big church and a windmill on the old ramparts. The Romans were here too: Woerden lies on the line of the Lower German Limes, and the remains of a Roman fort lie beneath the town centre.
Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
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Woerden-Centrum is where the day begins. Next is Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan.
The Rhine ends in a whimper rather than a bang. After its long journey from the Alps, its old main branch, the Oude Rijn, winds quietly through the flat polders of South Holland past Leiden toward the North Sea, and for the Romans this sluggish waterway was the northern frontier of the empire. At Roomburg, on the edge of Leiden and Leiderdorp, stood the fort of Matilo, guarding the river and the canal that linked it with the Meuse, and today its site is part of the Roomburgerpark, a green space with information points and outlines marking where the fort stood. It belongs to the Lower Germanic Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan write-up.
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Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Van Nellefabriek.
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.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Van Nellefabriek. Next is Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo.
Leiden gave the world a university, a painter and a puzzle about a Roman fort. The fort was called Matilo, and it stood on the south bank of the Oude Rijn, the old arm of the Rhine, in what is now the Roomburg district west of the old town, between about AD 40 and 270. It guarded the frontier that ran along the river from Germany to the sea, with a garrison of auxiliary troops and a civilian settlement beside it, and its name survives on the Roman road maps. Today the site is a green park, Park Matilo, where the outlines of the fort are marked out, and information panels tell the story. The Lower German Limes was inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo write-up.
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Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo, about halfway.
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Read the complete Van Nellefabriek write-up.
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Van Nellefabriek sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo.
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Read the complete Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo write-up.
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back through Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo comes up about 175 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Van Nellefabriek.
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Read the complete Van Nellefabriek write-up.
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about 211 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Van Nellefabriek. Next is back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan write-up.
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back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan, late in the day. Next is Woerden-Centrum.
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Read the complete Woerden-Centrum write-up.
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The route ends here after 278 km.
Woerden-Centrum → Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan → Van Nellefabriek is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Van Nellefabriek → Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo → Van Nellefabriek is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Van Nellefabriek → back through Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Leiden-Roomburg | Park Matilo → back through Van Nellefabriek is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Van Nellefabriek → back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Leiden-Roomburg | Besjeslaan → Woerden-Centrum is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.