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 357 km round trip from Cizer - roughly 7 h 17 in the saddle. It goes by way of Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia, Lozna - Curmăturița 1, Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului and Church of the Holy Archangels. The line favours views over speed.
Arsura is Romanian for a burn, a scorch, or a heat rash, and it turns up on rural maps wherever a hillside was cleared by fire. The name, though, tells a small story of its own, since a clearing burned for pasture or for planting is exactly the sort of place where people leave pottery, charcoal and traces of a settlement.
Read the complete Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 write-up.
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Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 is where the day begins. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia.
Above the town of Zalau, where the Meses mountains form a long, wooded ridge across northern Transylvania, the Roman Empire built one of its most remote defences. The mountains separated the province of Dacia from the free tribes to the north, and the ridge was fortified with a line of watchtowers and forts, the western part of what is now called the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. The greatest of them was Porolissum, a garrison town and customs post on the Meses Gate, the pass through the ridge, near the village of Moigrad.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia write-up.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
Lozna is a village in the northern hills of Sălaj county, close to the Someș river, a place of small farms, orchards and wooden houses, and Curmăturița is a saddle in the hills above it, where a Roman watchtower is thought to have stood. The northern frontier of Roman Dacia ran through this area, following ridges and river valleys, and small towers and forts were placed to watch over the approaches. Today there is little to see, but the view from the saddle, over the rolling hills and the Someș valley, is lovely, and it explains why the Romans chose the spot.
Read the complete Lozna - Curmăturița 1 write-up.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Lozna - Curmăturița 1. Next is Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului.
The name is a mouthful, and a good one: the Ridge of the Wolf's Clearing, on the hill of Muncel, above the Someș valley north-east of Dej. Somewhere along this wooded crest the Romans kept a lookout on the northern border of Dacia, watching the valleys for movement from the free tribes beyond. Watchtowers like this one were the eyes of the frontier, signalling to the forts below, and the site is part of the Dacian frontier inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. On the ground, expect very little: perhaps a low mound, a ditch or scattered stones under the trees. It is a place for imagination and a walk rather than a monument.
Read the complete Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului write-up.
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Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului, about halfway. Next is Church of the Holy Archangels.
The wooden church at Rogoz stands in the Lăpuș country, a quieter, lesser-known corner of Maramureș, south of the mountains and away from the main tourist circuits. Built in the seventeenth century and dedicated to the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, it is unusual in shape: the roof is asymmetric and overhangs deeply on one side, and the eaves are supported by carved wooden brackets shaped like horse heads, a detail that seems to come straight out of folk tradition. Inside, the walls are painted with scenes from the Bible, including a vivid Last Judgement. It is one of the eight churches in the UNESCO listing of the Wooden Churches of Maramureș.
Read the complete Church of the Holy Archangels write-up.
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Church of the Holy Archangels sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului.
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Read the complete Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului write-up.
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back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului comes up about 226 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
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Read the complete Lozna - Curmăturița 1 write-up.
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about 269 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1. Next is back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia write-up.
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back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia, late in the day. Next is Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2.
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Read the complete Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 write-up.
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The route ends here after 357 km.
Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 → Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia → Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului → Church of the Holy Archangels is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Archangels → back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului → back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia → Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.