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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254 km from Zeiselmauer to Zeiselmauer, about 4 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld, Baden bei Wien, Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube and back through Baden bei Wien. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
A Roman fort is built around its gates, and the Kastentor at Zeiselmauer is where the road once entered the fort of Cannabiaca. Gates were the weak point of any fort, so they were guarded by towers and given heavy doors, and the roads that led through them were the arteries of the frontier. This gate faced the main road along the Danube, and soldiers, merchants and messengers passed through it for generations. The excavation of the gate gave archaeologists a close look at how the fort was built and how it changed over time.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor write-up.
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Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor is where the day begins. Next is Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld.
Vienna began as a Roman legionary camp, Vindobona, on a terrace above the Danube, and its streets still follow some of the old lines. The camp itself was in what is now the inner city, around Hoher Markt, and the canabae, the civilian settlement that grew up beside it, spread out to the west and south with workshops, taverns, houses and cemeteries. The Gräberfeld, the field of graves, lay beyond, as Roman custom demanded. The remains here are mostly underground and under pavements, which suits a city that has built on every layer of its past.
Read the complete Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld write-up.
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Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Baden bei Wien. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube.
Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, spent several years at Carnuntum during his wars against the Germanic tribes north of the Danube, and he is thought to have written part of his Meditations here; the third book carries the note that it was written at Carnuntum. In the second century, this was one of the most important places on the Roman frontier: a legionary fortress, an auxiliary fort and a civil town that grew into the capital of the province of Upper Pannonia, with tens of thousands of inhabitants. Today, the archaeological park at Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg shows reconstructed houses, a bath and streets built using Roman methods, two amphitheatres, and the Heidentor, a great ruined triumphal arch standing alone in the fields. The Danube Limes became a World Heritage site in 2021.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube write-up.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube, about halfway. Next is back through Baden bei Wien.
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Read the complete Baden bei Wien write-up.
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back through Baden bei Wien sits at 164 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld.
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Read the complete Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld write-up.
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back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld comes up about 226 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor write-up.
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Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor closes the day.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor → Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld → Baden bei Wien is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baden bei Wien → Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube → back through Baden bei Wien is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baden bei Wien → back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld → Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.