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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177 km from Zwentendorf to Zwentendorf, about 3 h of riding. On the way it passes Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell, 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.
The Danube flows broad and brown past Zwentendorf, a quiet village on the Tullnerfeld plain west of Vienna, and for once the most famous building in the area is not the oldest one. Zwentendorf is where Austria built a nuclear power station in the 1970s and then, after a national referendum in 1978, decided never to switch it on. The plant still stands by the river, complete and unused, now a training site and a curiosity.
Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
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Zwentendorf - Kastell is where the day begins. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell.
Before there was a Vienna, there was a frontier. For some four hundred years the Danube formed the northern boundary of the Roman empire in central Europe, and a chain of forts, watchtowers and harbours kept watch along the south bank. Zeiselmauer, about thirty kilometres upstream from the modern capital, was one of them, and a stretch of Roman wall with a tower still stands in the village, incorporated into later buildings. The Danube Limes in Austria, Germany and Slovakia was listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld. 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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Baden bei Wien, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld sits at 116 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell comes up about 152 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zwentendorf - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Zwentendorf - Kastell closes the day.
Zwentendorf - Kastell → Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell → Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld is 28 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 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld → back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell → Zwentendorf - Kastell is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.