CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Gâlgău it runs 205 km to Gâlgău; allow about 4 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului, Sita - Vârful Sitii, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci and back through Sita - Vârful Sitii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the north of Transylvania, the Someș river winds through a valley of green hills, woods and villages with wooden churches and haystacks, and on a hilltop near the village of Bârsău Mare, the faint remains of a Roman fortification overlook the valley. This was part of the northern frontier of Roman Dacia, the province created after Trajan's conquest in the early second century, and it is one of the sites included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Bârsău Mare - Cetate write-up.
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Bârsău Mare - Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului.
North of Dej, in the hills of Cluj county, the land rises into a rolling upland of pastures, orchards and beech woods, cut by small valleys and dotted with villages. Muncelul Chiuieștiului is one of the hilltops above the village of Chiuiești, and the name is listed among archaeological sites of the Roman frontier in Dacia, which in this region ran along the hills to protect the province from the free Dacians and other peoples to the north. What exactly stood on this hilltop is something to learn from the local signs rather than assume; much of the frontier here consisted of small watchtowers and earthworks that left only faint traces.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului write-up.
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Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului comes up 29 km in. Next is Sita - Vârful Sitii.
On a hilltop near the village of Spermezeu, in the Someș hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, a small watchtower once stood guard over the northern edge of the Roman Empire. When the emperor Trajan conquered Dacia in the early second century, the Romans built a frontier around their new province, the Dacian limes, a chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks running along the Carpathians and through the hills. Vârful Sitii, the summit of Sita, was one of the observation points, chosen because from here soldiers could watch the valleys to the north and send signals to the forts behind them.
Read the complete Sita - Vârful Sitii write-up.
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57 km in you reach Sita - Vârful Sitii. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, about halfway. Next is back through Sita - Vârful Sitii.
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Read the complete Sita - Vârful Sitii write-up.
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back through Sita - Vârful Sitii sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului.
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Read the complete Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului write-up.
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back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului comes up 143 km in. Next is Bârsău Mare - Cetate.
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Read the complete Bârsău Mare - Cetate write-up.
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Bârsău Mare - Cetate closes the day.
Bârsău Mare - Cetate → Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului → Sita - Vârful Sitii is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sita - Vârful Sitii → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Sita - Vârful Sitii is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sita - Vârful Sitii → back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chiuiești - Muncelul Chiuieștiului → Bârsău Mare - Cetate is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.