Why this ride
A 222 km round trip from Stârciu - roughly 4 h 22 in the saddle. It goes by way of Brebi - Dealul Mare 4, Cliț - Fața Chicerii, Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei and back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii. The coast is the point of it.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Agrij - Coasta Lată and Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 222 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 22
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Scenic road chapters
Agrij - Coasta Lată → Brebi - Dealul Mare 4
36 km on Agrij - Coasta Lată → Brebi - Dealul Mare 4.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 36 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Agrij - Coasta Lată
The Meseș mountains are a modest ridge by Carpathian standards, but for the Romans they were a natural wall, and they built their frontier along it. The north-western edge of Dacia ran along these hills, with forts, watchtowers and walls guarding the passes from the plains of the Barbaricum beyond. Agrij - Coasta Lată, near the villages of Stârciu, Buciumi and Meseșenii de Jos, is one of the watchtower sites named in the World Heritage inscription of 2024. Nearby, at Buciumi, are the remains of a fort, and a little further north, at Moigrad, lies Porolissum, the largest Roman site in the region, with a reconstructed gate.
Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Agrij - Coasta Lată is where the day begins. Next is Brebi - Dealul Mare 4.
2. Brebi - Dealul Mare 4
The Meseș mountains are not high, but they once marked the edge of an empire. In the early second century the Romans conquered Dacia and built a line of defences along the ridge, with a chain of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks, to guard the north-western frontier of the new province. The big fortress at Porolissum, at Moigrad, was the headquarters, and in between were dozens of small posts on hilltops, each in sight of the next. Brebi, a village in Sălaj county, lies on this frontier, and Dealul Mare, the Big Hill, is the kind of name given to the high ground where such a tower would stand.
Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
3. Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Cliț - Fața Chicerii. Next is Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
4. Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei
Strâmtură means a narrowing, and the name fits. Just outside Gâlgău, a small Sălaj village on the Someș, the valley pinches between wooded slopes, and the Roman frontier made use of exactly such pinch points to control movement along the river. The site listed as Valea Strâmturei belongs to that northern Dacian line, and like most of its neighbours it is earthwork and setting rather than standing masonry. You come for the geography and the sense of a border that ran through these quiet hills nearly two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei, about halfway. Next is back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
5. back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 4.
6. back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 4
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is Agrij - Coasta Lată.
7. Agrij - Coasta Lată
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Agrij - Coasta Lată closes the day.
Leg by leg
Agrij - Coasta Lată to Brebi - Dealul Mare 4
Agrij - Coasta Lată → Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 to Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii to Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei to back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii to back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 4
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 to Agrij - Coasta Lată
back through Brebi - Dealul Mare 4 → Agrij - Coasta Lată is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.