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 147 km to Breţcu; allow about 2 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății, Village of Prejmer-Tartlau and back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
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 comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Prejmer-Tartlau. Next is back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
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Read the complete Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății write-up.
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back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății, 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 → Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.