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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A 464 km round trip from Corbu - roughly 11 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mareș - La Stadion, Stolniceni - Buridava Romană, Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari and Monastery of Horezu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Flat. That is the first impression of this part of southern Romania, in Argeș county, where the land stretches away towards the Danube in wide fields of maize and sunflowers, broken only by lines of trees and small villages. But across this plain, in the second century AD, the Romans built a frontier: the Limes Transalutanus, a line of earthworks and forts running north to south east of the Olt river, protecting the province of Dacia. At Urluieni, near the village of Afrimești, stood one of its forts.
Read the complete Afrimești - Urluieni write-up.
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Afrimești - Urluieni is where the day begins. Next is Mareș - La Stadion.
Pitești is the kind of city most riders pass through on the way somewhere else, and the somewhere else is usually the Transfăgărășan. The famous road over the Făgăraș mountains begins north of here, beyond Curtea de Argeș, and the hills of Argeș county around Albota and Mareș, just south-west of Pitești, are where many people start the day.
Read the complete Mareș - La Stadion write-up.
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Mareș - La Stadion comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
South of Râmnicu Vâlcea the Olt river leaves the mountains and broadens across a valley of orchards and villages, and on the terraces above it at Stolniceni lie the remains of Buridava, a Roman military settlement whose name the Romans borrowed from an older Dacian centre nearby. It sat on the Limes Alutanus, the frontier road along the Olt that guarded the eastern edge of Roman Dacia, and soldiers stationed here left inscriptions, bricks stamped with unit marks and the foundations of baths. The site is part of the Dacian frontier listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. Next is Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari.
The Olt is the river that cuts through the Carpathians, and wherever a river does that, an army will want to sit beside it. At Păușa, near Călimănești, the Romans built a small fort called Arutela to guard the road through the Olt valley, part of the defensive line that protected their province of Dacia after Trajan's conquest at the start of the second century. The fort's remains lie by the river, partly lost to floods and later works, and are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari write-up.
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Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari, about halfway. Next is Monastery of Horezu.
Constantin Brâncoveanu, prince of Wallachia at the end of the seventeenth century, was a wealthy, cultured ruler who built churches, palaces and monasteries across his principality, and Horezu was his masterpiece. Founded in 1690, the monastery sits in a quiet valley in the foothills of the Căpățânii mountains, surrounded by walls, with a church at the centre of a courtyard lined with arcaded cells. It is the finest example of the Brâncovenesc style, a blend of Byzantine, Renaissance and Baroque, with carved stone, painted interiors and elegant porches, and it was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1993. In 1714, Brâncoveanu and his four sons were executed by the Ottomans in Istanbul; the Romanian Orthodox Church later canonised them as martyrs.
Read the complete Monastery of Horezu write-up.
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Monastery of Horezu sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari.
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Read the complete Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari write-up.
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back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari comes up about 298 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
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about 339 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. Next is back through Mareș - La Stadion.
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Read the complete Mareș - La Stadion write-up.
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back through Mareș - La Stadion, late in the day. Next is Afrimești - Urluieni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Afrimești - Urluieni write-up.
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The route ends here after 464 km.
Afrimești - Urluieni → Mareș - La Stadion is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mareș - La Stadion → Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari → Monastery of Horezu is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monastery of Horezu → back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari → back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → back through Mareș - La Stadion is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mareș - La Stadion → Afrimești - Urluieni is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.