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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297 km from Ungra to Ungra, about 5 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Historic Centre of Sighişoara, Feldioara - Cetățeaua and back through Historic Centre of Sighişoara. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 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 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 Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
The Făgăraș mountains are the highest wall in Romania, and from the Olt valley at Ucea they rise like a grey and white curtain across the southern sky, with Moldoveanu and Negoiu, the country's two highest peaks, hidden somewhere in the ridge. Down in the valley, near the villages of Ucea de Jos and Feldioara, the Romans had a fort at a site called Cetățeaua, guarding the Olt route that formed part of the frontier system of Dacia. The remains, earthworks and fragments in the fields, are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
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about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Feldioara - Cetățeaua. 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 → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → back through Historic Centre of Sighişoara is 82 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.