CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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502 km from Brezoi to Brezoi, about 11 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes Monastery of Horezu, Stolniceni - Buridava Romană, Mârțești - Cetate and Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Brezoi is where two rivers meet and the mountains lean in. The Lotru comes down from the high ridges of the Parang and Lotru ranges, the Olt arrives from the north through its famous gorge, and below the confluence the valley opens just enough for a town of about seven thousand people to settle. Cozia and Lotrisor sit on either side of this junction, and the great pyramid of the Cozia massif stands over the road to the east, a dark wall of beech and spruce that glows copper in October.
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Cozia - Lotrisor is where the day begins. Next is Monastery of Horezu.
Constantin Brâncoveanu, prince of Wallachia at the end of the seventeenth century, was a wealthy, cultured ruler who built churches, palaces and monasteries across his principality, and Horezu was his masterpiece. Founded in 1690, the monastery sits in a quiet valley in the foothills of the Căpățânii mountains, surrounded by walls, with a church at the centre of a courtyard lined with arcaded cells. It is the finest example of the Brâncovenesc style, a blend of Byzantine, Renaissance and Baroque, with carved stone, painted interiors and elegant porches, and it was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1993. In 1714, Brâncoveanu and his four sons were executed by the Ottomans in Istanbul; the Romanian Orthodox Church later canonised them as martyrs.
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Monastery of Horezu comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
South of Râmnicu Vâlcea the Olt river leaves the mountains and broadens across a valley of orchards and villages, and on the terraces above it at Stolniceni lie the remains of Buridava, a Roman military settlement whose name the Romans borrowed from an older Dacian centre nearby. It sat on the Limes Alutanus, the frontier road along the Olt that guarded the eastern edge of Roman Dacia, and soldiers stationed here left inscriptions, bricks stamped with unit marks and the foundations of baths. The site is part of the Dacian frontier listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2024.
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about 107 km into the recorded legs you reach Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. Next is Mârțești - Cetate.
South of the Carpathians, where the Wallachian plain starts to lift into hills, there is a quiet stretch of the Argeș county, and this point lies near Lunca Corbului, in a landscape of low ridges, orchards and wide fields. The name Cetate simply means fortress or citadel in Romanian, and the label suggests a place where an old defensive site was recorded, whether Roman or older.
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Mârțești - Cetate, about halfway. Next is Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor.
Out on the flat Romanian plain east of the Olt river, the village of Crâmpoia sits among endless fields of wheat, maize and sunflowers, and its name has a place in Roman history. A Roman earthen fort near the village stood on the Limes Transalutanus, the frontier line that the Romans built east of the Olt in the early third century, running from the Danube northward toward the Carpathians, a long earthen rampart with forts and watchtowers. The local name Reduta Tătarilor, the Tatars' redoubt, reflects a common habit in Romania of attributing old earthworks to the Tatars or other invaders, long after the Romans were forgotten. The site is part of the UNESCO-listed frontier of Dacia.
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Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mârțești - Cetate.
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Read the complete Mârțești - Cetate write-up.
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back through Mârțești - Cetate comes up about 312 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
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about 394 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. Next is back through Monastery of Horezu.
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back through Monastery of Horezu, late in the day. Next is Cozia - Lotrisor.
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The route ends here after 502 km.
Cozia - Lotrisor → Monastery of Horezu is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monastery of Horezu → Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Mârțești - Cetate is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mârțești - Cetate → Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor → back through Mârțești - Cetate is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mârțești - Cetate → back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → back through Monastery of Horezu is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monastery of Horezu → Cozia - Lotrisor is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.