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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328 km from Vlăhiţa to Vlăhiţa, about 6 h 53 of riding. It goes by way of Village of Dârjiu, Păuleni - Dealul Silaș, Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat and Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Deep in the forests of Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land, the small spa of Băile Homorod sits in a valley among spruce and beech, with wooden villas, mineral springs and the smell of resin in the air. The springs here produce borvíz, naturally carbonated mineral water, which the Székely people drink as their everyday water and believe has healing powers. Cekend is the name attached to a nearby hill site on the eastern line of Roman Dacia's frontier, one of hundreds of components listed together as a World Heritage Site in 2024.
Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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Băile Homorod - Cekend is where the day begins. Next is Village of Dârjiu.
Dârjiu is a Székely village of around eleven hundred people in Harghita county, and at its heart stands one of the fortified churches that UNESCO lists among the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania. Most of those villages are Saxon and Lutheran; Dârjiu is Hungarian-speaking and Unitarian, which makes it something of an odd one out and all the more interesting. A ring of thick walls and towers encloses the church, built so that villagers could shelter from raiders, and the tradition of storing smoked bacon and grain in the fortress towers lasted here long into modern times.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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Village of Dârjiu comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Păuleni - Dealul Silaș.
Corund is a village where almost every house seems to sell pottery. Stalls line the main road through this Székely community in Harghita county, piled high with plates, jugs and bowls in white, blue, green and brown, painted with flowers and birds. Pottery has been made here for centuries, using local clay, and the craft is still alive, though much of what is sold today is made for tourists. Păuleni and the hill called Dealul Silaș lie nearby, an archaeological site among many in this land of rolling hills and forested ridges, with little to see on the ground.
Read the complete Păuleni - Dealul Silaș write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Păuleni - Dealul Silaș. Next is Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
In the eastern part of Mureș county, near the boundary with Harghita, the hills rise towards the volcanic mountains of the Eastern Carpathians, and the villages are mostly Hungarian-speaking. This is part of the Székely Land, home to the Székelys, a Hungarian-speaking people who settled here in the Middle Ages to guard the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary, and who maintain a strong identity, with their own runic script, carved wooden gates and fortified churches. Câmpul Cetății, the field of the fortress, is a village near Eremitu, and the site of Cetatea Săcădat is one of the elements of the Roman frontier listed by UNESCO, on the eastern edge of the province of Dacia, where the Romans built a line of forts and towers along the foothills of the mountains.
Read the complete Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat write-up.
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Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat, about halfway. Next is Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii.
Salt has shaped this part of Transylvania as much as any river. The hills of the eastern Transylvanian basin sit on enormous salt deposits, and the springs and lakes are often salty, as in Sărățeni, whose name says it all, and where a small salt museum explains the history. Ideciu de Sus, a village in the Mureș valley above Reghin, lies in this country, and the hill of Dealul Custurii nearby carried a Roman watchtower on the eastern frontier of Dacia, included in UNESCO's inscription of 2024. The Romans valued salt highly, and controlling the deposits was one reason they kept a watchful eye on these hills.
Read the complete Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii write-up.
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Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
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Read the complete Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat write-up.
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back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat comes up about 206 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș.
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Read the complete Păuleni - Dealul Silaș write-up.
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about 253 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș. Next is back through Village of Dârjiu.
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Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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back through Village of Dârjiu, late in the day. Next is Băile Homorod - Cekend.
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Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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The route ends here after 328 km.
Băile Homorod - Cekend → Village of Dârjiu is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Dârjiu → Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → back through Village of Dârjiu is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Dârjiu → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.