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 Stârciu it runs 359 km to Stârciu; allow about 7 h 13 of riding. The stops in between: Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2, Negreni - Poiana la Arbore, Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum and Church of the Holy Archangels. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Dosu forest lies above Buciumi, in the hills where Sălaj starts rising toward the Meseș range. It is a working woodland, not a showpiece: beech and oak, a few hornbeam, tracks cut by loggers, and a floor that smells strongly of leaf mould after rain. If you stop and kill the engine, the quiet is very complete. Wild boar and roe deer use these slopes, and the ground along the verges is often turned up by the former.
Read the complete Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu write-up.
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Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is where the day begins. Next is Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2.
The Roman province of Dacia had a northern frontier that ran along the hills of what is now Sălaj county, in north-western Romania, around the great fortress of Porolissum. Here the Limes was not a continuous wall but a network of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks set on hilltops with views over the valleys. Vârful Cigleanului, a hilltop near the village of Ciglean, close to Jibou, held one of these watchtowers, and the number in the name marks it as one of several in the area.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 write-up.
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Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Negreni - Poiana la Arbore.
Somewhere in the hills of Sălaj county, between the villages of Lozna, Rus and Letca, a meadow called Poiana la Arbore, the clearing by the tree, marks one of the small Roman sites on the north-western frontier of Dacia. The name alone tells you what to expect: a glade, a ridge, perhaps a lone tree, and the faint traces of a watch post that once looked out over the Someş valley. The Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in 2024 included many such places, and their value lies in the chain they form rather than in any single ruin.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Negreni - Poiana la Arbore. Next is Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
On a terrace above the river Someș, near the village of Cășeiu, a few kilometres from Dej in northern Transylvania, the Romans built a fort they called Samum. It guarded the northern edge of their province of Dacia, which they conquered in the early second century after two hard wars against the Dacian king Decebalus. The fort controlled the valley and the routes into the province, and today its outline can still be traced in the fields, with low walls and earthworks where archaeologists have uncovered gates, towers and barracks. In 2024 the Dacian frontier was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -, about halfway. Next is Church of the Holy Archangels.
The wooden church at Rogoz stands in the Lăpuș country, a quieter, lesser-known corner of Maramureș, south of the mountains and away from the main tourist circuits. Built in the seventeenth century and dedicated to the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, it is unusual in shape: the roof is asymmetric and overhangs deeply on one side, and the eaves are supported by carved wooden brackets shaped like horse heads, a detail that seems to come straight out of folk tradition. Inside, the walls are painted with scenes from the Bible, including a vivid Last Judgement. It is one of the eight churches in the UNESCO listing of the Wooden Churches of Maramureș.
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Church of the Holy Archangels sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum -.
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back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - comes up about 237 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore.
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about 282 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore. Next is back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2.
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back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2, late in the day. Next is Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu.
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The route ends here after 359 km.
Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 → Negreni - Poiana la Arbore is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negreni - Poiana la Arbore → Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → Church of the Holy Archangels is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Archangels → back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cășeiu - Cetățele / Samvm Cășeiu -Samum - → back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negreni - Poiana la Arbore → back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 2 → Buciumi - Pădurea Dosu is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.