CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 454 km round trip from Augustin - roughly 9 h 45 in the saddle. It goes by way of Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană, Village of Saschiz-Keisd, Sărățeni - Casa Sării and Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In Baraolt you are more likely to hear Hungarian than Romanian. This small town lies in Covasna County, in the heart of the Székely Land, where the Székely Hungarian community has lived for centuries, with its own traditions, carved wooden gates, Calvinist and Catholic churches and a fierce sense of identity. Véczer, near Baraolt, is one of the points on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, where small forts and watchtowers watched over the passes through the eastern Carpathians, and it belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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Baraolt - Véczer is where the day begins. Next is Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană.
Odorheiu Secuiesc is a town that answers to two names, and if you ask for directions you will probably hear the Hungarian one, Székelyudvarhely. This is the heart of Székely Land, the Hungarian-speaking corner of eastern Transylvania, and the signs, the church spires and the way people greet you all make that plain within a minute of arriving. Piatra Coțofană, the Magpie Stone, is one of the rocky heights on the hills around the town, a few kilometres out among pasture and beech woods.
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Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Saschiz-Keisd.
The clock tower of the fortified church in Saschiz looks oddly familiar if you have just come from Sighișoara, and that is no accident: it was built in the image of the famous clock tower of the nearby town, a statement of local pride by the Saxon villagers who built it in the late fifteenth century. The church belongs to the World Heritage inscription for villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, a group of German-speaking Saxon communities that fortified their churches against Ottoman and Tatar raids. Above the village, on a wooded hill, are the ruins of a peasant citadel, where the inhabitants took refuge during attacks.
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about 103 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Saschiz-Keisd. Next is Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
Salt has shaped this corner of Transylvania for thousands of years. Beneath the hills of the Sovata and Praid area lies a huge salt dome, and in places it reaches the surface, creating salt cliffs, salty springs and lakes. Sărățeni, a village in the Târnava Mică valley, takes its name from the salt, and Casa Sării, the salt house, is the local name for the spot marked here. The Romans valued this salt as much as Dacian gold, and the eastern frontier of their province ran along these hills, with a fort at Sărățeni among the posts that watched the valleys and, no doubt, the salt routes.
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Sărățeni - Casa Sării, 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.
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Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii sits at 186 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
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back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării comes up about 288 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd.
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about 351 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd. Next is back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană.
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back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană, late in the day. Next is Baraolt - Véczer.
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The route ends here after 454 km.
Baraolt - Véczer → Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană → Village of Saschiz-Keisd is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Saschiz-Keisd → Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sărățeni - Casa Sării → Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sărățeni - Casa Sării → back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd → back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană → Baraolt - Véczer is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.