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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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549 km from Boşorod to Boşorod, about 9 h 27 of riding. The stops in between: Bănița - Jigoru Mare, Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea, Village of Câlnic and back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Blidaru is the Dacian fortress that makes you rethink what you know about the people Rome conquered. It stands on a steep hill above the village of Costești, in the Orăștie mountains of Transylvania, and its walls are built of precisely cut limestone blocks, laid in the Dacian style called murus dacicus, with timber ties inside to absorb shocks. The builders learned from Greek masonry, and the result is a fortress with strong corner towers and a small square citadel, built on a terrace carved out of the mountain. It was one of the defences guarding Sarmizegetusa Regia, the Dacian capital, a few valleys away, and the group of Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie mountains was listed by UNESCO in 1999.
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Costesti -Blidaru is where the day begins. Next is Bănița - Jigoru Mare.
High on a limestone outcrop above the village of Bănița, in the hills of south-western Transylvania, stand the ruins of a Dacian fortress. Bănița is one of the six Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains listed by UNESCO in 1999, part of the defensive system built around the capital of the Dacian kingdom, Sarmizegetusa Regia, in the first century BC and the first century AD. The kingdom's last great ruler, Decebalus, held out against Rome in two hard wars before Trajan's legions finally conquered Dacia in 106, an event recorded in stone on Trajan's Column in Rome.
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Bănița - Jigoru Mare comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea.
High above the Sebeș and Cugir valleys, where the Șureanu foothills fold into long grassy shoulders, the Romans kept watch over the southern approaches to their province of Dacia. The name on the map, Muncelu-Lăutaorea, belongs to the ridge country above Pianu de Jos, and it is one of the many small frontier points that archaeologists have tied to the Roman defensive system here. Do not expect walls to lean on. What survives on these hilltops is usually a faint platform, a ditch you notice only when the light is low, and a view that explains everything about why a sentry was posted there.
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about 182 km into the recorded legs you reach Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea. Next is Village of Câlnic.
Câlnic, a small village south of Sebeș in Alba county, is home to one of the strangest fortresses among the Saxon sites of Transylvania. Unlike most of its neighbours, it began not as a fortified church but as a noble residence. In the thirteenth century a local count built a stone keep here, surrounded by walls and a moat. Later the villagers bought it, added a chapel and storerooms, and turned it into a peasant refuge, where families could shelter from raids behind the walls. The result, still ringed by water on parts of its perimeter, is part of the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania World Heritage site.
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Village of Câlnic, about halfway. Next is back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea.
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Read the complete Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea write-up.
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back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea sits at 367 km, about halfway. Next is back through Bănița - Jigoru Mare.
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back through Bănița - Jigoru Mare comes up about 473 km into the recorded legs. Next is Costesti -Blidaru.
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Read the complete Costesti -Blidaru write-up.
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Costesti -Blidaru closes the day.
Costesti -Blidaru → Bănița - Jigoru Mare is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bănița - Jigoru Mare → Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea is 103 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea → Village of Câlnic is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Câlnic → back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea → back through Bănița - Jigoru Mare is 103 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bănița - Jigoru Mare → Costesti -Blidaru is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.