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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212 km from Tălmaciu to Tălmaciu, about 3 h of riding. It goes by way of Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate, Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil, Titești - Dealul Cazanului and Cozia - Lotrisor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Olt does something improbable south of Sibiu. Instead of going around the Carpathians, it cuts straight through them, carving a deep, winding gorge between the Făgăraș and Lotru ranges, and for two thousand years that gorge has been one of the great gateways between Transylvania and Wallachia. At its northern mouth, near the village of Boița, the Romans built a fort they called Caput Stenarum, the head of the narrows, to guard the entrance.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is where the day begins. Next is Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate.
Here the Olt does something that rivers are not supposed to do: it cuts straight through the Carpathians. Between Sibiu and Râmnicu Vâlcea the river runs through a gorge that the Romans knew well, and Racovița lies in its southern stretch, where steep wooded slopes close in on both sides. The Romans built forts along it as part of the Limes Alutanus, and the name Praetorium on our list is one of those, a small fort that guarded the road along the water. Not far away, Caput Stenarum, near Boița, held the pass at the northern end of the gorge.
Read the complete Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate write-up.
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Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil.
The Olt river cuts through the Carpathians in a gorge a few kilometres from Păuşa, one of the few natural gateways between Transylvania and the southern plains, and the Romans knew its value. After Trajan conquered Dacia in AD 106, the frontier of the new province ran along the Olt, a line known as the Limes Alutanus, and a chain of watchtowers and small forts guarded the river, the roads and the passes against raiders from the lands to the east. Turnul lui Teofil, Teofil's Tower, is one of those lookouts, standing on a height over the valley, in a place chosen so that a signal fire or a trumpet call could be passed on from tower to tower.
Read the complete Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil write-up.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil. Next is Titești - Dealul Cazanului.
The Olt is one of Romania's great rivers, and where it cuts through the Southern Carpathians, between Brezoi and Calimanesti, it does so in a long, narrow gorge that has been a corridor for armies and traders for two thousand years. Titesti and Perisani lie just off this corridor, in the hill country that rises on its western side, where the road leaves the traffic behind and climbs through orchards, hay meadows and beech woods. Dealul Cazanului, the Cauldron Hill, is one of those names that points at the shape of the land more than any particular monument.
Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
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Titești - Dealul Cazanului, about halfway. Next is Cozia - Lotrisor.
Brezoi is where two rivers meet and the mountains lean in. The Lotru comes down from the high ridges of the Parang and Lotru ranges, the Olt arrives from the north through its famous gorge, and below the confluence the valley opens just enough for a town of about seven thousand people to settle. Cozia and Lotrisor sit on either side of this junction, and the great pyramid of the Cozia massif stands over the road to the east, a dark wall of beech and spruce that glows copper in October.
Read the complete Cozia - Lotrisor write-up.
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Cozia - Lotrisor sits at 87 km, about halfway. Next is back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului.
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Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
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back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului comes up about 132 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil.
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Read the complete Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil. Next is back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate.
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Read the complete Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate write-up.
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back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate, late in the day. Next is Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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The route ends here after 212 km.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil → Titești - Dealul Cazanului is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Titești - Dealul Cazanului → Cozia - Lotrisor is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cozia - Lotrisor → back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului → back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil → back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.