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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235 km from Făgăraș to Făgăraș, about 4 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Feldioara - Cetățeaua, Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude, Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate and Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 47 km this is Transfăgărășan, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
The Făgăraș mountains are the highest wall in Romania, and from the Olt valley at Ucea they rise like a grey and white curtain across the southern sky, with Moldoveanu and Negoiu, the country's two highest peaks, hidden somewhere in the ridge. Down in the valley, near the villages of Ucea de Jos and Feldioara, the Romans had a fort at a site called Cetățeaua, guarding the Olt route that formed part of the frontier system of Dacia. The remains, earthworks and fragments in the fields, are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
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Feldioara - Cetățeaua comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
The Olt does something improbable south of Sibiu. Instead of going around the Carpathians, it cuts straight through them, carving a deep, winding gorge between the Făgăraș and Lotru ranges, and for two thousand years that gorge has been one of the great gateways between Transylvania and Wallachia. At its northern mouth, near the village of Boița, the Romans built a fort they called Caput Stenarum, the head of the narrows, to guard the entrance.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. Next is Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate.
Here the Olt does something that rivers are not supposed to do: it cuts straight through the Carpathians. Between Sibiu and Râmnicu Vâlcea the river runs through a gorge that the Romans knew well, and Racovița lies in its southern stretch, where steep wooded slopes close in on both sides. The Romans built forts along it as part of the Limes Alutanus, and the name Praetorium on our list is one of those, a small fort that guarded the road along the water. Not far away, Caput Stenarum, near Boița, held the pass at the northern end of the gorge.
Read the complete Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate write-up.
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Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate, about halfway. Next is Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil.
The Olt river cuts through the Carpathians in a gorge a few kilometres from Păuşa, one of the few natural gateways between Transylvania and the southern plains, and the Romans knew its value. After Trajan conquered Dacia in AD 106, the frontier of the new province ran along the Olt, a line known as the Limes Alutanus, and a chain of watchtowers and small forts guarded the river, the roads and the passes against raiders from the lands to the east. Turnul lui Teofil, Teofil's Tower, is one of those lookouts, standing on a height over the valley, in a place chosen so that a signal fire or a trumpet call could be passed on from tower to tower.
Read the complete Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil write-up.
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Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate.
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Read the complete Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate write-up.
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back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate comes up about 139 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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about 169 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. Next is back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
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back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua, late in the day. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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The route ends here after 235 km.
Cincșor - Cetate → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil → back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Cincșor - Cetate is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.