CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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314 km from Mirşid to Mirşid, about 6 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Lozna - Curmăturița 1, Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului, Dobricel - Vârful Lazului and Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Most people who know the Roman Empire think of Hadrian's Wall or the Rhine, but there was also a Roman frontier in the hills of north-western Transylvania, and this is part of it. The province of Dacia Porolissensis was guarded by a line of forts and wooden watchtowers on ridge tops, and the great fort and customs station at Porolissum, at Moigrad, was its centre. UNESCO added the Dacia Porolissensis frontier to its listing of Roman frontiers in 2024. Brebi lies close to Porolissum, and the ridge called Dealul Mare gives a sense of why the Romans chose these hills: wide views over the valleys and the approaches from the north.
Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 write-up.
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Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 is where the day begins. Next is Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
Lozna is a village in the northern hills of Sălaj county, close to the Someș river, a place of small farms, orchards and wooden houses, and Curmăturița is a saddle in the hills above it, where a Roman watchtower is thought to have stood. The northern frontier of Roman Dacia ran through this area, following ridges and river valleys, and small towers and forts were placed to watch over the approaches. Today there is little to see, but the view from the saddle, over the rolling hills and the Someș valley, is lovely, and it explains why the Romans chose the spot.
Read the complete Lozna - Curmăturița 1 write-up.
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Lozna - Curmăturița 1 comes up 35 km in. Next is Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului.
The name is a mouthful, and a good one: the Ridge of the Wolf's Clearing, on the hill of Muncel, above the Someș valley north-east of Dej. Somewhere along this wooded crest the Romans kept a lookout on the northern border of Dacia, watching the valleys for movement from the free tribes beyond. Watchtowers like this one were the eyes of the frontier, signalling to the forts below, and the site is part of the Dacian frontier inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. On the ground, expect very little: perhaps a low mound, a ditch or scattered stones under the trees. It is a place for imagination and a walk rather than a monument.
Read the complete Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului write-up.
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70 km in you reach Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului. Next is Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Spermezeu is the kind of place a road atlas barely notices: a commune of scattered villages in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud, in northern Transylvania, between the upper Someș valley and the Țibleș mountains. The site of Dobricel, on the hilltop known as Vârful Lazului, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in the area, a high point above the valleys where traces of earlier inhabitants have been noted. There is not much to see without an archaeologist's eye, but the hilltop and the country around it are a good excuse for a ride through a region few foreigners ever visit.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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Dobricel - Vârful Lazului, about halfway. 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 sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
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Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului comes up 174 km in. Next is back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului.
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Read the complete Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului write-up.
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209 km in you reach back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului. Next is back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
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back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1, late in the day. Next is Brebi - Dealul Mare 3.
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Read the complete Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 write-up.
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The route ends here after 314 km.
Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 → Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului → Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului → back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → Brebi - Dealul Mare 3 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.