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 Sighișoara it runs 90 km to Sighișoara; allow about 1 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Village of Saschiz-Keisd, Village of Viscri and back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sighișoara is a medieval citadel that people still live in, and that is what sets it apart. Founded by German settlers, the Transylvanian Saxons, who were invited by the Hungarian kings in the twelfth century to colonise and defend the region, it grew into a prosperous town of craftsmen's guilds, each of which built and defended its own tower in the walls. Nine towers survive out of the original fourteen, named after the tailors, shoemakers, tinsmiths, butchers, furriers and others, and the old town on its hill above the Târnava Mare river was listed by UNESCO in 1999.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Sighişoara write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of Sighişoara is where the day begins. Next is Village of Saschiz-Keisd.
The clock tower of the fortified church in Saschiz looks oddly familiar if you have just come from Sighișoara, and that is no accident: it was built in the image of the famous clock tower of the nearby town, a statement of local pride by the Saxon villagers who built it in the late fifteenth century. The church belongs to the World Heritage inscription for villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, a group of German-speaking Saxon communities that fortified their churches against Ottoman and Tatar raids. Above the village, on a wooded hill, are the ruins of a peasant citadel, where the inhabitants took refuge during attacks.
Read the complete Village of Saschiz-Keisd write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Village of Saschiz-Keisd comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Viscri.
Viscri is the village people picture when they think of Transylvania's Saxon heritage, and it more or less lives up to it. A single long street of pastel houses, blue, ochre and white, stands gable end to the road, with geese in the ditch, horse carts at dusk and, at the top of the slope, a fortified church wrapped in thick white walls. It is part of the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania listed by UNESCO, and it is one of the best preserved.
Read the complete Village of Viscri write-up.
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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Viscri. Next is back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Saschiz-Keisd write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd, late in the day. Next is Historic Centre of Sighişoara.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Sighişoara write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic Centre of Sighişoara. That is the ride.
Historic Centre of Sighişoara → Village of Saschiz-Keisd is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Saschiz-Keisd → Village of Viscri is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Viscri → back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Saschiz-Keisd → Historic Centre of Sighişoara is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.