CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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231 km from Săliştea de Sus to Săliştea de Sus, about 5 h 30 of riding. It goes by way of Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Church of Saint Nicholas and back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 27 km this is Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.
Ieud is a long village strung along a side valley of the Iza river in Maramureș, in Romania's far north, and it has not one but two wooden churches. The one on the hill, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, is one of the eight Wooden Churches of Maramureș listed by UNESCO, and it is one of the oldest, with a tall, slender bell tower and a double roof of wooden shingles that reaches almost to the ground. Inside, the walls are covered with eighteenth-century paintings on wood and cloth, with scenes from the Last Judgement in which the damned are dressed in the clothes of the local enemies of the time. The church is also known for the Ieud Codex, a manuscript found here, one of the oldest texts written in the Romanian language.
Read the complete Church of the Nativity of the Virgin write-up.
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin comes up 25 km in. Next is Church of Saint Nicholas.
Budești is one of the old villages of the Cosău valley in Maramureș, the far northern corner of Romania, where traditional life has survived longer than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its wooden church of St Nicholas, built in the seventeenth century, is a masterpiece of the local carpentry tradition: a dark timber body with a tall, steep shingled roof and a slender spire that seems to pierce the sky. Inside, the walls are covered with painted scenes from the Bible, and among the church's treasures is a coat of chain mail said to have belonged to Pintea the Brave, a legendary outlaw hero of the region. The church is one of eight in the UNESCO listing of the Wooden Churches of Maramureș.
Read the complete Church of Saint Nicholas write-up.
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49 km in you reach Church of Saint Nicholas. Next is back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.
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Read the complete Church of the Nativity of the Virgin write-up.
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back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, late in the day. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. That is the ride.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin → Church of Saint Nicholas is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of Saint Nicholas → back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.