Why this ride
From Ungra it runs 151 km to Ungra; allow about 2 h 53 of riding. It goes by way of Village of Viscri, Village of Dârjiu and back through Village of Viscri.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hoghiz - La Cetate and Village of Dârjiu
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 151 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 53
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hoghiz - La Cetate
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hoghiz - La Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Village of Viscri.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Village of Viscri comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Dârjiu.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Dârjiu. Next is back through Village of Viscri.
4. back through Village of Viscri
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Viscri write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Village of Viscri, late in the day. Next is Hoghiz - La Cetate.
5. Hoghiz - La Cetate
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hoghiz - La Cetate. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hoghiz - La Cetate to Village of Viscri
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 to Village of Dârjiu
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 to back through Village of Viscri
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 to Hoghiz - La Cetate
back through Village of Viscri → Hoghiz - La Cetate is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.