Road Route, Stage 2: Travel Guide Moravský Svätý Ján - Višňové

Today, you will start heading east. You will wander from the pine forests of the Záhorská lowlands to the rolling hills of the Myjava region, sometimes nicknamed “Slovak Tuscany”.

For the first 20 kilometres, you will cycle in traffic, although it shouldn’t be busy. On the way, stop in the town of Šaštín-Stráže. One of the most important pilgrimage towns in Slovakia, it is home to a massive cathedral, but also a pleasant lake with sandy beaches, Gazárka.

In Borský Svätý Jur, take a look at the original historic straw house. From here, you cycle along the cycling path without traffic in the forest and beside the Penati golf resort to Senica.

Senica (35 km) is an unspiring town, but offers some options to stop for lunch or coffee. Consider lighter Vietnamese food at Hanoi Restaurant, popular daily canteen Coop Jednota, or Plzenský Šenk na Pyskatém for more hearty meals.

Behind Senica, rolling hills with some steeper climbs start. Local museum of farm life in Prietrž – Rehuši is closed at the moment, but walk up to observation tower Lipovec nearby if you have enough energy.

Other options for having a lunch is Belan Restaurant and U Tvarožkov in Brezová pod Bradlom (54 km), or Holotéch Víška and Gurmán in Košariská (58 km). The village is known as a birth place of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, one of the most important Slovak heroes and one of the founders of Czechoslovakia in 1918. There is Štefánik museum in Košariská and his amazing tomb (Mohyla M R Štefánika), which requires a big effort to cycle up around 250 metres elevation gain.

So if you are not overmotivated, feel free to continue through villages Podkylava, Krajné and Hrachovište to Višňové, the goal your stage today.