Why this ride
322 km from Săliştea de Sus to Săliştea de Sus, about 7 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Spermezeu - Lazuri, Church of the Holy Archangels, Spermezeu - Sunătoare and Guga - Vârful Țâglii. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci and Guga - Vârful Țâglii
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 322 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 7 h 21
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is where the day begins. Next is Spermezeu - Lazuri.
2. 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.
Read the complete Spermezeu - Lazuri write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Spermezeu - Lazuri comes up 35 km in. Next is Church of the Holy Archangels.
3. Church of the Holy Archangels
The wooden church at Rogoz stands in the Lăpuș country, a quieter, lesser-known corner of Maramureș, south of the mountains and away from the main tourist circuits. Built in the seventeenth century and dedicated to the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, it is unusual in shape: the roof is asymmetric and overhangs deeply on one side, and the eaves are supported by carved wooden brackets shaped like horse heads, a detail that seems to come straight out of folk tradition. Inside, the walls are painted with scenes from the Bible, including a vivid Last Judgement. It is one of the eight churches in the UNESCO listing of the Wooden Churches of Maramureș.
Read the complete Church of the Holy Archangels write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
70 km in you reach Church of the Holy Archangels. Next is Spermezeu - Sunătoare.
4. Spermezeu - Sunătoare
Sunatoare is the Romanian name for St John's wort, the yellow-flowered herb that people have gathered for centuries to make tea and oil, and the hill that bears the name above the village of Spermezeu must have been covered in it once. Spermezeu lies in the north of the Transylvanian plateau, in the hills that separate the valley of the Somes from the counties of Salaj and Bistrita-Nasaud, a landscape of rounded ridges, small streams, hayfields and woodland. Midsummer is the time when the yellow flowers open, and in the old custom of the region, people picked them around the feast of St John, on the twenty-fourth of June.
Read the complete Spermezeu - Sunătoare write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Spermezeu - Sunătoare, about halfway. Next is Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
5. 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.
Read the complete Guga - Vârful Țâglii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Guga - Vârful Țâglii sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Spermezeu - Sunătoare.
6. back through Spermezeu - Sunătoare
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Read the complete Spermezeu - Sunătoare write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Spermezeu - Sunătoare comes up 175 km in. Next is back through Church of the Holy Archangels.
7. back through Church of the Holy Archangels
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Read the complete Church of the Holy Archangels write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
210 km in you reach back through Church of the Holy Archangels. Next is back through Spermezeu - Lazuri.
8. back through Spermezeu - Lazuri
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Spermezeu - Lazuri write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Spermezeu - Lazuri, late in the day. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
9. Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The route ends here after 322 km.
Leg by leg
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci to Spermezeu - Lazuri
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Spermezeu - Lazuri is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Spermezeu - Lazuri to Church of the Holy Archangels
Spermezeu - Lazuri → Church of the Holy Archangels is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Archangels to Spermezeu - Sunătoare
Church of the Holy Archangels → Spermezeu - Sunătoare is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Spermezeu - Sunătoare to Guga - Vârful Țâglii
Spermezeu - Sunătoare → Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guga - Vârful Țâglii to back through Spermezeu - Sunătoare
Guga - Vârful Țâglii → back through Spermezeu - Sunătoare is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Spermezeu - Sunătoare to back through Church of the Holy Archangels
back through Spermezeu - Sunătoare → back through Church of the Holy Archangels is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Holy Archangels to back through Spermezeu - Lazuri
back through Church of the Holy Archangels → back through Spermezeu - Lazuri is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Spermezeu - Lazuri to Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci
back through Spermezeu - Lazuri → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.