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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510 km from Făgăraș to Făgăraș, about 12 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Codrul secular Șinca, Moieciu - Drumul Carului, Voinești - Măilătoaia and Rădăcinești - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 73 km this is Transfagarasan Highway, 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 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.
Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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Codrul secular Șinca comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Moieciu - Drumul Carului. 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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Voinești - Măilătoaia, about halfway. Next is Rădăcinești - Cetate.
Rădăcinești is a quiet village belonging to Berislăvești, tucked into the hills on the east side of the Olt valley in Vâlcea county. The word cetate on the label means fortress, and like many such names in Romania it points to an old fortified height above the village, the kind of place where earthworks and a few stones are all that is left of people who once watched this valley closely. You come for the setting rather than for ruins you can walk through.
Read the complete Rădăcinești - Cetate write-up.
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Rădăcinești - Cetate sits at 175 km, about halfway. Next is back through Voinești - Măilătoaia.
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Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
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back through Voinești - Măilătoaia comes up about 328 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
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Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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about 382 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului. Next is back through Codrul secular Șinca.
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Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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back through Codrul secular Șinca, 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 510 km.
Cincșor - Cetate → Codrul secular Șinca is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moieciu - Drumul Carului → Voinești - Măilătoaia is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voinești - Măilătoaia → Rădăcinești - Cetate is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rădăcinești - Cetate → back through Voinești - Măilătoaia is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Voinești - Măilătoaia → back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului → back through Codrul secular Șinca is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Codrul secular Șinca → Cincșor - Cetate is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.