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 Schitu-Goleşti it runs 576 km to Schitu-Goleşti; allow about 13 h 56 of riding. The stops in between: Moieciu - Drumul Carului, Voinești - Măilătoaia, Codrul secular Șinca and Cincșor - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Câmpulung Muscel lies at the foot of the Carpathians in northern Argeș county, and it claims the title of the first capital of Wallachia. Tradition credits its founding as a princely seat to the legendary Negru Vodă in the thirteenth century, and the old princely court and the Negru Vodă monastery in the town centre recall those early days of the Romanian principality. The town spreads along the valley of the Râul Târgului, with the mountains of Iezer and Piatra Craiului rising steeply to the north.
Read the complete Câmpulung - Jidova 1 write-up.
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Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is where the day begins. Next is Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
Between Bran and Rucăr, the road climbs over the saddle that separates the Bucegi mountains from Piatra Craiului, through a landscape of high meadows, hay barns, scattered farms and limestone peaks. The name Drumul Carului, the cart road, recalls the old route across this pass, which has linked Transylvania and Wallachia for centuries, and archaeologists have recorded a Roman-era site here, part of the network of frontier and road posts in Dacia. Fundata, at the top, is one of the highest villages in Romania, at around 1,350 metres, and the scattered houses of Moieciu, Peștera and Șirnea spread across the hills around it.
Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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Moieciu - Drumul Carului comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Voinești - Măilătoaia.
The Rucăr-Bran corridor is one of the oldest passages through the Carpathians, and at its southern end, in the hills around Câmpulung Muscel, the Romans built a frontier line to guard it. The Limes Transalutanus, the frontier east of the Olt, ran north through this area, and small forts and watchtowers like the one at Voinești-Măilătoaia watched the valleys and the approaches to the pass. The sites are now low earthworks in fields and forest edges, and they belong to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
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about 125 km into the recorded legs you reach Voinești - Măilătoaia. 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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Codrul secular Șinca, about halfway. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Between Sibiu and Făgăraș, the Olt flows through a broad valley, with the long wall of the Făgăraș mountains rising to the south, the highest in Romania, culminating in Moldoveanu at 2,544 metres. On the north bank, near the Saxon village of Cincșor, known in German as Kleinschenk, the Romans built a fort to guard the river crossing and the road along the valley. The site, known locally as Cetate, the fortress, lies in fields near the village, with only faint traces visible.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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Cincșor - Cetate sits at 178 km, about halfway. Next is back through Codrul secular Șinca.
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back through Codrul secular Șinca comes up about 372 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Voinești - Măilătoaia.
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about 451 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Voinești - Măilătoaia. Next is back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
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Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului, late in the day. Next is Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
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The route ends here after 576 km.
Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moieciu - Drumul Carului → Voinești - Măilătoaia is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voinești - Măilătoaia → Codrul secular Șinca is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → Cincșor - Cetate is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cincșor - Cetate → back through Codrul secular Șinca is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Codrul secular Șinca → back through Voinești - Măilătoaia is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Voinești - Măilătoaia → back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului → Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.