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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From Ucea de Jos it runs 341 km to Ucea de Jos; allow about 6 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Village of Valea Viilor, Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP and back through Village of Valea Viilor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
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Feldioara - Cetățeaua is where the day begins. 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.
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Village of Valea Viilor comes up about 87 km into the recorded legs. Next is Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP.
In the Mureș valley near Ocna Mureș, the village of Războieni-Cetate takes the second half of its name, cetate, fortress, from the Roman fort that once stood here, guarding the road and the river in central Dacia. The fort was a base for a cavalry unit, and its remains, close to the farm buildings of the communist era collective, the CAP, whose stables give the site its odd label, are part of the World Heritage listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. Little is visible above ground, but the outline of the fort can be traced in the fields.
Read the complete Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP write-up.
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about 174 km into the recorded legs you reach Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP. Next is back through Village of Valea Viilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Valea Viilor, late in the day. Next is 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 at Feldioara - Cetățeaua. That is the ride.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Village of Valea Viilor is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Valea Viilor → Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Războieni - Cetate - Grajduri CAP → back through Village of Valea Viilor is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Valea Viilor → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 87 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.