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 252 km to Ungra; allow about 4 h 28 of riding. The stops in between: Baraolt - Véczer, Olteni - Castelul Mikó, Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății and back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó. The line favours views over speed.
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 Baraolt - Véczer.
In Baraolt you are more likely to hear Hungarian than Romanian. This small town lies in Covasna County, in the heart of the Székely Land, where the Székely Hungarian community has lived for centuries, with its own traditions, carved wooden gates, Calvinist and Catholic churches and a fierce sense of identity. Véczer, near Baraolt, is one of the points on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, where small forts and watchtowers watched over the passes through the eastern Carpathians, and it belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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Baraolt - Véczer comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Olteni - Castelul Mikó.
The Olt here is a young river, winding through meadows in the basin north of Sfântu Gheorghe before it bends west across Transylvania. At Olteni, a village on its banks, the Mikó family, one of the noble houses of the Szekler Land, had a manor house set in a park, and the place is linked to one of the Roman sites of the eastern Dacian frontier listed in 2024. The Romans had a fort in this area, guarding the routes through the mountains, and like most sites in the region, little of it can be seen today.
Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Olteni - Castelul Mikó. Next is Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
Southeast of Sfântu Gheorghe, in Covasna county, the plain of the Râul Negru, the Black River, opens out between the mountains, a broad basin of fields, meadows and villages enclosed by the forested ridges of the Eastern Carpathians. Boroșneu Mare is one of the larger villages in this basin, a Székely community with a church and a cluster of farms, and the hill above it, Dealul Cetății, the Fortress Hill, takes its name from old earthworks or a fortification recorded there. It is one of many such sites in the area, more a landmark than a monument.
Read the complete Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății write-up.
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Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății, about halfway. Next is back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó.
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Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
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back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó sits at 122 km, about halfway. Next is back through Baraolt - Véczer.
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Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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back through Baraolt - Véczer comes up about 197 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hoghiz - La Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
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Hoghiz - La Cetate closes the day.
Hoghiz - La Cetate → Baraolt - Véczer is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baraolt - Véczer → Olteni - Castelul Mikó is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olteni - Castelul Mikó → Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății → back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó → back through Baraolt - Véczer is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baraolt - Véczer → Hoghiz - La Cetate is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.