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 273 km round trip from Vlăhiţa - roughly 5 h 26 in the saddle. It goes by way of Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat, Lunca - La Bolovani and back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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 comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lunca - La Bolovani.
La Bolovani means at the boulders, which tells you most of what a local would have said about this spot on the hills near the village of Lunca, between Monor and Șieuț on the eastern edge of the Transylvanian basin. Archaeologists know it as one of the sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia, a small watch post on a ridge commanding views east towards the Călimani and Gurghiu mountains, beyond which lay lands Rome never controlled. In 2024 it joined the World Heritage listing of the Dacian limes, though in the field you will find a quiet hill, sheep and very few signs.
Read the complete Lunca - La Bolovani write-up.
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about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Lunca - La Bolovani. Next is back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat, late in the day. Next is Băile Homorod - Cekend.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Băile Homorod - Cekend. That is the ride.
Băile Homorod - Cekend → Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → Lunca - La Bolovani is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lunca - La Bolovani → back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.