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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From Breţcu it runs 258 km to Breţcu; allow about 5 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, Codrul secular Șinca and back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
Read the complete Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu write-up.
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Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu 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 61 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul secular Șinca. Next is back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
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Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
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back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, late in the day. Next is Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu. That is the ride.
Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Codrul secular Șinca is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu is 61 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.