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 486 km one-way ride from near Japons, about 6 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes near Brezová pod Bradlom and Breitenfurt bei Wien. It crosses from Austria into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Japons lies on the high granite plateau of the Waldviertel, the forest quarter of Lower Austria, north-west of Vienna, a land of rolling hills, fields, forests and scattered villages, where the climate is harsher and the pace slower than in the Danube valley below. The village is small and quiet, with a church and farms, and the surrounding landscape is open and airy, with long views over the plateau.
Read the complete Photo stop near Japons write-up.
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Photo stop near Japons is where the day begins. Next is Vienna / Eastern Alps return.
Burgenland lies tucked against the Hungarian border, and it is the youngest of Austria's federal states. The region was part of the Kingdom of Hungary until 1921, when it was awarded to Austria after the First World War, and the town of Sopron, just across the line, chose by plebiscite to stay Hungarian. The composer Joseph Haydn served the Esterházy princes at Eisenstadt for decades, and the palace where he worked still stands.