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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A 295 km round trip from Ungra - roughly 5 h 36 in the saddle. It goes by way of Historic Centre of Sighişoara, Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat and back through Historic Centre of Sighişoara. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Historic Centre of Sighişoara.
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.
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Historic Centre of Sighişoara comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
In the eastern part of Mureș county, near the boundary with Harghita, the hills rise towards the volcanic mountains of the Eastern Carpathians, and the villages are mostly Hungarian-speaking. This is part of the Székely Land, home to the Székelys, a Hungarian-speaking people who settled here in the Middle Ages to guard the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary, and who maintain a strong identity, with their own runic script, carved wooden gates and fortified churches. Câmpul Cetății, the field of the fortress, is a village near Eremitu, and the site of Cetatea Săcădat is one of the elements of the Roman frontier listed by UNESCO, on the eastern edge of the province of Dacia, where the Romans built a line of forts and towers along the foothills of the mountains.
Read the complete Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat. Next is back through 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 through Historic Centre of Sighişoara, late in the day. Next is Hoghiz - La Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hoghiz - La Cetate. That is the ride.
Hoghiz - La Cetate → Historic Centre of Sighişoara is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of Sighişoara → Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → back through Historic Centre of Sighişoara is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historic Centre of Sighişoara → Hoghiz - La Cetate is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.