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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188 km from Boroşneu Mare to Boroşneu Mare, about 4 h 09 of riding. The stops in between: Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate, Codrul secular Șinca and back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Southeast of Sfântu Gheorghe, in Covasna county, the plain of the Râul Negru, the Black River, opens out between the mountains, a broad basin of fields, meadows and villages enclosed by the forested ridges of the Eastern Carpathians. Boroșneu Mare is one of the larger villages in this basin, a Székely community with a church and a cluster of farms, and the hill above it, Dealul Cetății, the Fortress Hill, takes its name from old earthworks or a fortification recorded there. It is one of many such sites in the area, more a landmark than a monument.
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Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is where the day begins. Next is Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
In the Burzenland plain east of Brașov, the village of Prejmer, known to its Saxon founders as Tartlau, is home to one of the most remarkable buildings in Romania: a fortified church surrounded by massive circular walls, with hundreds of storage rooms built into them on several levels. The church was begun in the thirteenth century by the Teutonic Knights, who were invited into the region by the Hungarian king to defend the frontier, and later strengthened by the Saxon villagers, who built the walls to protect themselves against Ottoman and Tatar raids. It is part of the UNESCO listing of villages with fortified churches in Transylvania.
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Village of Prejmer-Tartlau comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
The Roman fort of Cumidava stood on a terrace near the village of Vulcan, just west of Râșnov, at the southern end of the Bârsa Land, guarding the route from Transylvania through the mountains to Wallachia. It was one of the forts on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, and its name, recorded on an inscription, is believed to be Dacian in origin. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, added to the UNESCO list in 2024. Little stands above ground, but the setting, with the mountains rising to the south, makes it clear why the Romans chose this spot.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
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Codrul secular Șinca, about halfway. Next is back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
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back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
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back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau comes up about 160 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății write-up.
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Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății closes the day.
Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → Codrul secular Șinca is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.