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 123 km round trip from Zeiselmauer - roughly 2 h in the saddle. It goes by way of Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld, Baden bei Wien and back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Zeiselmauer is a village of about fourteen hundred people on the south bank of the Danube, between Vienna and Tulln, and under its streets lies a Roman fort. The Romans called it Cannabiaca, and it was one of the forts that guarded the frontier of the province of Noricum and later Pannonia. The fort was built of stone, with a square plan and corner towers, and a small civilian settlement grew up around it. The Danube Limes, of which it was a part, was listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Zentralbereich 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.
Read the complete Baden bei Wien write-up.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Baden bei Wien. Next is back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld, late in the day. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kastell Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zeiselmauer - Kastell Zentralbereich. That is the ride.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Zentralbereich → 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 → 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 Zentralbereich is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.