Germany · Austria · Slovakia · Hungary · Croatia · Serbia · Bulgaria · Turkey
Ride Munich to Istanbul on your smart trainer
From the Marienplatz in Munich to Sultanahmet in Istanbul, across eight countries, in ten parts you ride a few kilometres at a time.
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- Distance
- 2,327 km 1,446 mi
- Climbing
- 8,738 m 28,666 ft
- Parts
- 10
- At 45 minutes a ride
- about 9 months
The ten parts
- Part 1 Munich to Passau
Bavaria, Germany · 212 km · ↗ 228 m - Part 2 Passau to Vienna
Germany · Austria · 317 km · ↗ 834 m - Part 3 Vienna to Budapest
Austria · Slovakia · Hungary · 292 km · ↗ 358 m - Part 4 Budapest to Mohács
Hungary · 223 km · ↗ 325 m - Part 5 Mohács to Belgrade
Hungary · Croatia · Serbia · 261 km · ↗ 604 m - Part 6 Belgrade to Niš
Serbia · 238 km · ↗ 1,303 m - Part 7 Niš to Sofia
Serbia · Bulgaria · 155 km · ↗ 1,429 m - Part 8 Sofia to Plovdiv
Bulgaria · 159 km · ↗ 878 m - Part 9 Plovdiv to Edirne
Bulgaria · Turkey · 180 km · ↗ 492 m - Part 10 Edirne to Istanbul
Turkey · 291 km · ↗ 2,287 m
The road
longvoie started with this journey: one very long road, ridden a little every evening, until one day you arrive in Istanbul.
The first half follows rivers. The Isar takes you out of Munich to the Danube, and the Danube carries you through Passau, Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest, then south through Croatia and Serbia to Belgrade. From Belgrade the road leaves the river and follows the Via Militaris, the Roman military road from Singidunum to Constantinople, through Niš, Sofia, Plovdiv and Edirne. The last part crosses Thrace to the Sea of Marmara and follows it into Istanbul.
How it rides
Each part is its own road in longvoie, and each one starts where the one before it ends. Ride Munich to Passau a few kilometres at a time; when you reach Passau, carry on with Passau to Vienna. Every part can be downloaded as a GPX file from its page.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. Heights from the Copernicus DEM, through Open-Meteo.