CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Chiuiești it runs 261 km to Chiuiești; allow about 6 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: Sita - Vârful Sitii, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, Church of the Holy Parasceve and back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a fortress on a hill above the Someș valley near Ciceu belonged not to the rulers of Transylvania but to the princes of Moldavia, on the far side of the Carpathians. Stephen the Great received the castle of Ciceu and its estates as compensation from the Hungarian king, and the Moldavian princes held it for decades, a curious enclave in the middle of Transylvania. The castle was later destroyed, and only ruins remain on the hill above Ciceu-Corabia, but the story gives a sense of how fluid borders and loyalties were in this part of Europe.
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Dumbrăveni - Măgura is where the day begins. Next is Sita - Vârful Sitii.
On a hilltop near the village of Spermezeu, in the Someș hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, a small watchtower once stood guard over the northern edge of the Roman Empire. When the emperor Trajan conquered Dacia in the early second century, the Romans built a frontier around their new province, the Dacian limes, a chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks running along the Carpathians and through the hills. Vârful Sitii, the summit of Sita, was one of the observation points, chosen because from here soldiers could watch the valleys to the north and send signals to the forts behind them.
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Sita - Vârful Sitii comes up 29 km in. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
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57 km in you reach Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. Next is Church of the Holy Parasceve.
Maramureș is one of the few corners of Europe where wood is still the language of the sacred, and the church of Saint Parascheva at Poienile Izei is a good place to learn it. It stands on a small rise above the Izei valley, a dark timber church with a steep, double-tiered shingled roof and a slender spire, built in the early seventeenth century and moved to its present spot later. Inside, the walls and ceiling carry painted scenes from the eighteenth century, and the one that always gets quoted is a vivid Last Judgment in which sinners get remarkably specific punishments.
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Church of the Holy Parasceve, about halfway. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sita - Vârful Sitii.
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back through Sita - Vârful Sitii comes up 143 km in. Next is Dumbrăveni - Măgura.
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Dumbrăveni - Măgura closes the day.
Dumbrăveni - Măgura → Sita - Vârful Sitii is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sita - Vârful Sitii → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Church of the Holy Parasceve is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Parasceve → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Sita - Vârful Sitii is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sita - Vârful Sitii → Dumbrăveni - Măgura is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.