The old town with the main square and Landstraße, the castle museum, the botanical garden, the music theater at Volksgarten, the Lentos Museum, the Ars Electronica Center, the Pöstlingberg adventure world – so much to visit in Linz... If leaving is hard for you, console yourself with the fact that this bike route stage offers an entertaining "cultural break" in Enns.
Before that, you still share the path with the northern branch of the Danube bike path until Steyregg. After crossing to the south bank via the Abwinden-Asten Danube power plant, two rewarding detours present themselves: one leads you to the worthwhile collegiate monastery of St. Florian with the famous Bruckner organ and the Altdorfer altar. The other (near Enghagen) to Enns:
The historically significant small town is one of Austria's oldest cities and can ideally be explored with a guided tour. The remains of the old city fortifications, the 60-meter-high town tower from the Reformation period (16th century), the Renaissance and Baroque houses on the town square enchant equally. And perhaps there’s still time for brief visits to the Roman museum and Ennsegg castle.
Soon after Enns you reach Lower Austria's Mostviertel, where cider taverns and cider-growers' inns repeatedly offer resting places. In Wallsee, another Roman museum illustrates how far back the history of this region goes. A turbulent history in which the Wallsee castle (private property), once inhabited by Habsburg Archduke Franz Salvator, also played a role. Up to the stage destination Ardagger, the Mostviertel shows itself from its most beautiful side away from the Danube.
