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 Poienile Izei it runs 274 km to Poienile Izei; allow about 6 h 30 of riding. It goes by way of Negrilești - Negru Vodă, Orheiu Bistriței - Vatra Satului and back through Negrilești - Negru Vodă. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Maramureș is one of the few corners of Europe where wood is still the language of the sacred, and the church of Saint Parascheva at Poienile Izei is a good place to learn it. It stands on a small rise above the Izei valley, a dark timber church with a steep, double-tiered shingled roof and a slender spire, built in the early seventeenth century and moved to its present spot later. Inside, the walls and ceiling carry painted scenes from the eighteenth century, and the one that always gets quoted is a vivid Last Judgment in which sinners get remarkably specific punishments.
Read the complete Church of the Holy Parasceve write-up.
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Church of the Holy Parasceve is where the day begins. Next is Negrilești - Negru Vodă.
Negrilești is a small village in Bistrița-Năsăud county, in the hills of northern Transylvania, near the valley of the Someș Mare. The name of the site, Negru Vodă, recalls the legendary founder of Wallachia, a figure from the Romanian chronicles who is said to have crossed the Carpathians in the thirteenth century to found the principality; whether he existed at all is still debated, and many places in Romania bear his name. The site itself is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, probably a watchtower or a small fortification on a hill, part of the northern frontier of the province. Little is visible, but the hills offer good views over the surrounding countryside.
Read the complete Negrilești - Negru Vodă write-up.
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Negrilești - Negru Vodă comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Orheiu Bistriței - Vatra Satului.
Bistrița is the town where Jonathan Harker spends his last comfortable night before heading into the mountains in Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the village of Orheiu Bistriței lies just eight kilometres to the south-east, in the hills above the valley of the Bistrița river. In Roman times, this was the site of an auxiliary fort on the north-eastern frontier of Dacia, and the remains lie beneath the village itself, which the locals know as the vatra satului, the village hearth. Excavations have revealed the outline of the fort, and finds are displayed in the county museum in Bistrița.
Read the complete Orheiu Bistriței - Vatra Satului write-up.
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about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach Orheiu Bistriței - Vatra Satului. Next is back through Negrilești - Negru Vodă.
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Read the complete Negrilești - Negru Vodă write-up.
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back through Negrilești - Negru Vodă, late in the day. Next is Church of the Holy Parasceve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Holy Parasceve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Church of the Holy Parasceve. That is the ride.
Church of the Holy Parasceve → Negrilești - Negru Vodă is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negrilești - Negru Vodă → Orheiu Bistriței - Vatra Satului is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Orheiu Bistriței - Vatra Satului → back through Negrilești - Negru Vodă is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negrilești - Negru Vodă → Church of the Holy Parasceve is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.