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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342 km from Brezoi to Brezoi, about 6 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Feldioara - Cetățeaua, Village of Valea Viilor and back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 83 km this is Transfăgărășan, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
The Olt is the only river that cuts straight through the Carpathians, and the Romans knew it. Between Copaceni and Brezoi, the Olt runs in a deep gorge through the mountains between Transylvania and Wallachia, and the Roman army, after conquering Dacia in 106 AD, built a line of forts and watchtowers along its western bank to guard this key corridor. The Limes Alutanus, as it is known, ran from the Danube northwards along the river, and sites such as Praetorium and Arutela were links in the chain. Some are little more than grassy ramparts today, but they sit on strategic hills with views along the valley.
Read the complete Copăceni - Praetorium I / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Copăceni - Praetorium I / 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Valea Viilor.
Valea Viilor means Valley of the Vineyards, and the name is honest: the slopes around the village were planted with vines long before anyone thought of mapping them. The Saxons called it Wurmloch, and its fortified church, a tall Gothic hall with a defensive storey built over the choir and a ring wall around it, is one of the seven on the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Valea Viilor. Next is back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua, late in the day. Next is Copăceni - Praetorium I / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Copăceni - Praetorium I / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Copăceni - Praetorium I / Cetate. That is the ride.
Copăceni - Praetorium I / Cetate → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Village of Valea Viilor is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Valea Viilor → back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Copăceni - Praetorium I / Cetate is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.