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 Făgăraș it runs 324 km to Făgăraș; allow about 6 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Village of Dârjiu, Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat and back through Village of Dârjiu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Village of Dârjiu.
Dârjiu is a Székely village of around eleven hundred people in Harghita county, and at its heart stands one of the fortified churches that UNESCO lists among the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania. Most of those villages are Saxon and Lutheran; Dârjiu is Hungarian-speaking and Unitarian, which makes it something of an odd one out and all the more interesting. A ring of thick walls and towers encloses the church, built so that villagers could shelter from raiders, and the tradition of storing smoked bacon and grain in the fortress towers lasted here long into modern times.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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Village of Dârjiu comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat. Next is back through Village of Dârjiu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Dârjiu, late in the day. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cincșor - Cetate. That is the ride.
Cincșor - Cetate → Village of Dârjiu is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Dârjiu → Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → back through Village of Dârjiu is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Village of Dârjiu → Cincșor - Cetate is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.