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 Ungra it runs 303 km to Ungra; allow about 6 h 09 of riding. It goes by way of Village of Viscri, Village of Dârjiu, Sânpaul - Cetate and Băile Homorod - Cekend. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Where the Olt river bends around the Perșani mountains, between the Saxon villages of southern Transylvania and the Székely country to the east, the land rises into wooded hills, and near the village of Hoghiz, on a terrace above the river, lies an archaeological site known simply as La Cetate, the fortress. The Romans guarded this stretch of the Olt with forts, part of the defensive system of their province of Dacia, and the name hints at an old fortified place that once watched over the valley.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
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Hoghiz - La Cetate is where the day begins. 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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Village of Viscri comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Dârjiu.
Dârjiu is a Székely village of around eleven hundred people in Harghita county, and at its heart stands one of the fortified churches that UNESCO lists among the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania. Most of those villages are Saxon and Lutheran; Dârjiu is Hungarian-speaking and Unitarian, which makes it something of an odd one out and all the more interesting. A ring of thick walls and towers encloses the church, built so that villagers could shelter from raiders, and the tradition of storing smoked bacon and grain in the fortress towers lasted here long into modern times.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Dârjiu. Next is Sânpaul - Cetate.
Sânpaul, Homoródszentpál to its Hungarian-speaking inhabitants, is a village in the Homorod valley in Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land of eastern Transylvania. Near the village, the Romans built a fort on the eastern edge of their province of Dacia, guarding routes through the hills from the Carpathians. The remains, now earthworks in the fields, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024. Nearby Ocland has a medieval fortification on a hill known as Hășmaș castle.
Read the complete Sânpaul - Cetate write-up.
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Sânpaul - Cetate, about halfway. Next is Băile Homorod - Cekend.
Deep in the forests of Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land, the small spa of Băile Homorod sits in a valley among spruce and beech, with wooden villas, mineral springs and the smell of resin in the air. The springs here produce borvíz, naturally carbonated mineral water, which the Székely people drink as their everyday water and believe has healing powers. Cekend is the name attached to a nearby hill site on the eastern line of Roman Dacia's frontier, one of hundreds of components listed together as a World Heritage Site in 2024.
Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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Băile Homorod - Cekend sits at 92 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sânpaul - Cetate.
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Read the complete Sânpaul - Cetate write-up.
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back through Sânpaul - Cetate comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Village of Dârjiu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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about 228 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Village of Dârjiu. Next is back through Village of Viscri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Viscri write-up.
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back through Village of Viscri, late in the day. Next is Hoghiz - La Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
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The route ends here after 303 km.
Hoghiz - La Cetate → Village of Viscri is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Viscri → Village of Dârjiu is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Dârjiu → Sânpaul - Cetate is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sânpaul - Cetate → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Băile Homorod - Cekend → back through Sânpaul - Cetate is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sânpaul - Cetate → back through Village of Dârjiu is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Dârjiu → back through Village of Viscri is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Viscri → Hoghiz - La Cetate is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.