CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Braşov it runs 357 km to Braşov; allow about 8 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Reci - Cetate, Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății, Codrul secular Șinca and Moieciu - Drumul Carului. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Braşov is the tidiest of the Saxon cities of Transylvania, a medieval town of red roofs and colourful baroque façades, ringed by wooded mountains and watched over by the bare rock of Tâmpa. The German settlers who built it in the thirteenth century called it Kronstadt, and it grew rich as a trading post at the crossing of routes between the Danube plains and Central Europe. The Black Church, the largest Gothic church between Vienna and Istanbul, dominates the old centre, and got its name after a great fire in 1689 blackened the walls. It houses an enormous organ and a collection of Anatolian carpets, given by merchants who traded in the East.
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Brasov is where the day begins. Next is Reci - Cetate.
Reci lies on the flat floor of the Târgu Secuiesc basin, in Covasna county, where the Olt river meanders between mountains in the heart of the Szekler Land, the Hungarian-speaking region of eastern Transylvania. The site known as Reci - Cetate, the fortress, belongs to the eastern line of the Roman frontier in Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire inscribed in 2024. The Romans guarded the passes through the Carpathians with forts and towers here, though today the site is little more than a raised area in the fields.
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Reci - Cetate comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
Southeast of Sfântu Gheorghe, in Covasna county, the plain of the Râul Negru, the Black River, opens out between the mountains, a broad basin of fields, meadows and villages enclosed by the forested ridges of the Eastern Carpathians. Boroșneu Mare is one of the larger villages in this basin, a Székely community with a church and a cluster of farms, and the hill above it, Dealul Cetății, the Fortress Hill, takes its name from old earthworks or a fortification recorded there. It is one of many such sites in the area, more a landmark than a monument.
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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
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Codrul secular Șinca, about halfway. Next is Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
Between Bran and Rucăr, the road climbs over the saddle that separates the Bucegi mountains from Piatra Craiului, through a landscape of high meadows, hay barns, scattered farms and limestone peaks. The name Drumul Carului, the cart road, recalls the old route across this pass, which has linked Transylvania and Wallachia for centuries, and archaeologists have recorded a Roman-era site here, part of the network of frontier and road posts in Dacia. Fundata, at the top, is one of the highest villages in Romania, at around 1,350 metres, and the scattered houses of Moieciu, Peștera and Șirnea spread across the hills around it.
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Moieciu - Drumul Carului sits at 173 km, about halfway. Next is back through Codrul secular Șinca.
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back through Codrul secular Șinca comes up about 220 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
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about 316 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății. Next is back through Reci - Cetate.
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back through Reci - Cetate, late in the day. Next is Brasov.
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The route ends here after 357 km.
Brasov → Reci - Cetate is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reci - Cetate → Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății → Codrul secular Șinca is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Codrul secular Șinca → Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moieciu - Drumul Carului → back through Codrul secular Șinca is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Codrul secular Șinca → back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății → back through Reci - Cetate is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reci - Cetate → Brasov is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.