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 324 km round trip from Tălmaciu - roughly 5 h 52 in the saddle. The stops in between: Village of Valea Viilor, Feldioara - Cetățeaua and back through Village of Valea Viilor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 Village of Valea Viilor.
Valea Viilor means Valley of the Vineyards, and the name is honest: the slopes around the village were planted with vines long before anyone thought of mapping them. The Saxons called it Wurmloch, and its fortified church, a tall Gothic hall with a defensive storey built over the choir and a ring wall around it, is one of the seven on the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
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Village of Valea Viilor comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
The Făgăraș mountains are the highest wall in Romania, and from the Olt valley at Ucea they rise like a grey and white curtain across the southern sky, with Moldoveanu and Negoiu, the country's two highest peaks, hidden somewhere in the ridge. Down in the valley, near the villages of Ucea de Jos and Feldioara, the Romans had a fort at a site called Cetățeaua, guarding the Olt route that formed part of the frontier system of Dacia. The remains, earthworks and fragments in the fields, are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Feldioara - Cetățeaua. Next is back through Village of Valea Viilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Valea Viilor, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. That is the ride.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → Village of Valea Viilor is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Village of Valea Viilor → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → back through Village of Valea Viilor is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Valea Viilor → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.