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 Eremitu it runs 153 km to Eremitu; allow about 3 h 25 of riding. It goes by way of Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii, Vătava - Cetățele and back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the eastern part of Mureș county, near the boundary with Harghita, the hills rise towards the volcanic mountains of the Eastern Carpathians, and the villages are mostly Hungarian-speaking. This is part of the Székely Land, home to the Székelys, a Hungarian-speaking people who settled here in the Middle Ages to guard the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary, and who maintain a strong identity, with their own runic script, carved wooden gates and fortified churches. Câmpul Cetății, the field of the fortress, is a village near Eremitu, and the site of Cetatea Săcădat is one of the elements of the Roman frontier listed by UNESCO, on the eastern edge of the province of Dacia, where the Romans built a line of forts and towers along the foothills of the mountains.
Read the complete Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat write-up.
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Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is where the day begins. Next is Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii.
Salt has shaped this part of Transylvania as much as any river. The hills of the eastern Transylvanian basin sit on enormous salt deposits, and the springs and lakes are often salty, as in Sărățeni, whose name says it all, and where a small salt museum explains the history. Ideciu de Sus, a village in the Mureș valley above Reghin, lies in this country, and the hill of Dealul Custurii nearby carried a Roman watchtower on the eastern frontier of Dacia, included in UNESCO's inscription of 2024. The Romans valued salt highly, and controlling the deposits was one reason they kept a watchful eye on these hills.
Read the complete Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii write-up.
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Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vătava - Cetățele.
For about a century and a half, the Roman province of Dacia was a wedge of empire pushed north of the Danube, and its eastern edge ran along the curve of the Carpathians through what is now central Romania. In 2024, UNESCO added the frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia to its list, a long chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks. Vătava, in the upper Mureș valley, is one of the sites, with traces of a Roman fortification on a hill called Cetățele, the little fortresses. Not much is visible to the casual eye: earthworks, a few stones, the outline of a position chosen for its view along the valley.
Read the complete Vătava - Cetățele write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Vătava - Cetățele. Next is back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii.
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Read the complete Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii write-up.
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back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii, late in the day. Next is Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat. That is the ride.
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → Vătava - Cetățele is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vătava - Cetățele → back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.