CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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315 km from Săliştea de Sus to Săliştea de Sus, about 6 h 38 of riding. On the way it passes Spermezeu - Lazuri, Guga - Vârful Țâglii, Valea Leșului - Țiclău and Brebi - Comorâște. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is where the day begins. Next is Spermezeu - Lazuri.
Spermezeu is a village in the hilly country of western Bistriţa-Năsăud county, in northern Transylvania, where low ridges covered with orchards, hayfields and beech woods roll between the Someş valley and the Ţibleş mountains. The site called Spermezeu - Lazuri belongs to the series of places along the northern edge of the Roman province of Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed in Romania in 2024. Here the Romans watched the border with watchtowers and small fortifications on hilltops, and though little remains above ground, the commanding views explain why these spots were chosen.
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Spermezeu - Lazuri comes up 35 km in. Next is Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
Rugășești, Vad and Poiana Blenchii are the kind of villages most people drive past on the way to somewhere else, and that is precisely the charm of the hills that rise between them. The point marked as Guga, Vârful Țâglii, lies on this rolling country north of the Someș, roughly a dozen kilometres from Dej, in the band of land where Rome drew the northern edge of Dacia. A summit called Țâglii is the sort of place where a watchtower would have looked out across the Someș corridor toward the free tribes beyond, and the archaeological lists record a frontier site here.
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70 km in you reach Guga - Vârful Țâglii. Next is Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
The Someș river does most of the work here. Flowing west and then north out of Transylvania, it has carved a valley through the hills of Sălaj county, and near the villages of Lozna and Letca the slopes close in, wooded and steep, with small clearings and hay meadows. On the ridges above, the Romans built watchtowers to guard the northern edge of Dacia, and the remains near Valea Leșului and Țiclău are among the sites included in the UNESCO frontier listing. Today they are little more than grassy hollows and stone scatters, visited by archaeologists and the occasional curious walker.
Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
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Valea Leșului - Țiclău, about halfway. Next is Brebi - Comorâște.
The hill of Comorâște, above the village of Brebi in Sălaj county, overlooks the Someș valley as it turns north towards Jibou, and its name hints at buried treasure, comoară, which is how villagers often explained odd mounds and old stones on their land. Archaeologists explain it more prosaically as a Roman watch site on the north-western frontier of Dacia, part of the line of towers and forts strung along the Meseș hills and inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. From the top you can see across the valley to the forested ridges that once marked the edge of the empire.
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Brebi - Comorâște sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
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Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
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back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău comes up 175 km in. Next is back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
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210 km in you reach back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii. Next is back through Spermezeu - Lazuri.
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back through Spermezeu - Lazuri, late in the day. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
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The route ends here after 315 km.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Spermezeu - Lazuri is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Spermezeu - Lazuri → Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guga - Vârful Țâglii → Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valea Leșului - Țiclău → Brebi - Comorâște is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebi - Comorâște → back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău → back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii → back through Spermezeu - Lazuri is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Spermezeu - Lazuri → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.