Bike Riding FF 16 - Riegersburg castle tour (Riegersburgtour) - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Thermen- & Vulkanland Bike Riding FF 16 - Riegersburg castle tour (Riegersburgtour) - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Thermen- & Vulkanland

FF 16 - Riegersburg castle tour (Riegersburgtour)

Open
Route for the sporty cyclist (with gradient up to 15 percent); leads past the imposing Riegersburg Castle, which you should also have seen from the inside.
The tour offers magnificent viewpoints into the East Styrian hill country, characterized by vineyards and orchards.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness
Experience
Scenery

Best season

January
February
November
December

The tour in numbers

challenging
Level of difficulty
45,8 km
Route
4:00 h
Time
428 hm
Uphill
428 hm
Downhill
409 m
Highest point
243 m
Lowest point

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More information

FROM VIENNA & LOWER AUSTRIA

By car: South freeway (A2) to exit Ilz/Fürstenfeld. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.


FROM GRAZ

By car: on the A2 motorway in the direction of Vienna as far as the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

 

FROM WESTERN AUSTRIA AND BAVARIA

By car: via Salzburg on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the Süd freeway (A2) or via Carinthia on the Süd freeway (A2) to the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

 

FROM ITALY OR SLOVENIA

By car: via Villach on the southern freeway (A2) to the Ilz - Fürstenfeld - Bad Loipersdorf exit or via Maribor on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the southern freeway (A2) in the direction of Vienna to the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

A visit to Riegersburg Castle is a must on this tour.
 

Detailed information about arriving by ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) can be found at  www.oebb.at or on the Verbundlinie Steiermark website  www.busbahnbim.at

 

With Verbundlinie’s BusBahnBim route planner app, planning your journey has never been easier: simply enter towns and/or addresses, stop names or points of interest to check all bus, train and tram connections in Austria. The app is available free of charge for smartphones – on Google Play and in the App Store

 

 

 

Parking lot in front of the Spa Loipersdorf

 

Tourist office Thermen- & Vulkanland
Guest information Bad Loipersdorf
Thermenstraße 152
8282 Bad Loipersdorf
Phone: +43 3382 55 100-82
badloipersdorf@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at

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What the weather will be like

Riegersburg (372m)

Morning
sunny
8°C
0%
10 km/h
Noon
sunny
15°C
0%
25 km/h
Night
cloudy
10°C
40%
15 km/h
Partly sunny in the morning, gradually becoming cloudy in the afternoon.
Morning
sunny
6°C
0%
5 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
18°C
0%
20 km/h
Night
slightly cloudy
15°C
0%
20 km/h
Dry and partly sunny throughout the day, with cloudy periods from time to time.
30.03.2024
very sunny
7°C 24°C
31.03.2024
sunny
8°C 23°C
01.04.2024
slightly cloudy
8°C 22°C
Südosten Region Österreich | © Thermen- & Vulkanland Steiermark

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