The route starts in the centre of Krems at the Hoher Markt and heads West, past the high medieval town castle of the "Gozzoburg" and the parish church of St. Veit, also known as the "Cathedral of the Wachau". We go down to the lift into Obere Landstraße and right towards Steiner Tor. We leave the pedestrian zone at Steinertor, a part of the former city wall and today's landmark of Krems. We walk along the city park via Schiller- and Und-Straße past the monastery AND the former Capuchin monastery, to the Kunstmeile Krems and the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, the architectonic cube, whichopened in 2019. At the end of the Steiner Landstraße, we reach the Donaulände. Over the listed, steel half-timbered bridge, the "Mauterner Brücke", you reach the Roman town of Mautern on the southern bank of the Danube, where the stage ends at Mautern town hall.
