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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476 km from Boroşneu Mare to Boroşneu Mare, about 9 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu, Baraolt - Véczer, Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană and Village of Saschiz-Keisd. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu.
There is a narrow gap in the Carpathians where Szeklerland meets the old principality of Moldavia, and the Romans, who valued narrow gaps, named their fort there Angustia, simply the narrow place. The little town of Bretcu sits on the site, in Covasna county, in a landscape of low forested mountains and wide hay meadows. The fort controlled the pass on the eastern frontier of the province of Dacia and was manned by auxiliary troops, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman frontiers. What survives is mostly earthworks and traces of the walls, with a few explanatory signs.
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Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Baraolt - Véczer.
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.
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about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Baraolt - Véczer. 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, about halfway. 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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Village of Saschiz-Keisd sits at 210 km, about halfway. Next is back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană.
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back through Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană comes up about 291 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Baraolt - Véczer.
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about 342 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Baraolt - Véczer. Next is back through Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu.
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back through Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu, late in the day. Next is Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
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The route ends here after 476 km.
Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății → Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu → Baraolt - Véczer is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Baraolt - Véczer is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baraolt - Véczer → back through Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu → Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.