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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185 km from Buciumi to Buciumi, about 3 h 32 of riding. It goes by way of Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine, Cliț - Fața Chicerii, Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei and back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Buciumi has a Roman fort, and a proper one. On a low hill above the village, the outline of a rectangular auxiliary fort has been excavated, with walls, gates and the foundations of the buildings inside, laid out to the standard Roman pattern with the headquarters in the middle and barracks to either side. It was one of the forts guarding the road and the passes of the Meseş mountains, a few kilometres from the larger fortress and town at Porolissum, and it held a unit of auxiliary troops, soldiers recruited from the provinces rather than citizen legionaries.
Read the complete Buciumi - Grădiște write-up.
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Buciumi - Grădiște is where the day begins. Next is Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine.
Zalău is the county town of Sălaj, a modern small city of about sixty thousand people that grew fast in the communist period, and the countryside around it is far more interesting than the blocks of flats. Brusturi, a few kilometres off, sits in the hills that lead up toward the Meseş mountains, and the name on our list points to a Roman fort called Certiae, one of the line of military posts that kept watch on the northern edge of Dacia, along with a ruin the locals link with an old legend of robbers.
Read the complete Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine write-up.
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Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Cliț - Fața Chicerii. Next is Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
Strâmtură means a narrowing, and the name fits. Just outside Gâlgău, a small Sălaj village on the Someș, the valley pinches between wooded slopes, and the Roman frontier made use of exactly such pinch points to control movement along the river. The site listed as Valea Strâmturei belongs to that northern Dacian line, and like most of its neighbours it is earthwork and setting rather than standing masonry. You come for the geography and the sense of a border that ran through these quiet hills nearly two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei, about halfway. Next is back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
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Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine.
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Read the complete Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine write-up.
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back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine comes up about 163 km into the recorded legs. Next is Buciumi - Grădiște.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Buciumi - Grădiște write-up.
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Buciumi - Grădiște closes the day.
Buciumi - Grădiște → Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine → Buciumi - Grădiște is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.