Why this ride
From Cizer it runs 322 km to Cizer; allow about 6 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Cliț - Fața Chicerii, Church of the Holy Paraskeva and back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 and Church of the Holy Paraskeva
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 322 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 26
- 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.
Scenic road chapters
Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 101 km this is Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 101 km
- Named road
- Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 is where the day begins. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
2. Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cliț - Fața Chicerii comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of the Holy Paraskeva.
3. Church of the Holy Paraskeva
In 1780 a painter named Radu Munteanu covered the inside of the wooden church at Desești with scenes that still shock and delight: a Last Judgment in which sinners are marched off to a hell full of grinning devils, alongside saints, prophets and lively village figures. The church, dedicated to the Holy Paraskeva and built in 1770 from oak logs, rises above the village with a tall, slender tower and a steep double roof of shingles. It is one of the eight wooden churches of Maramureș inscribed by UNESCO in 1999, and its paintings are among the best preserved of them all.
Read the complete Church of the Holy Paraskeva write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Church of the Holy Paraskeva. Next is back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
4. back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii, late in the day. Next is Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2.
5. Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 to Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii to Church of the Holy Paraskeva
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Church of the Holy Paraskeva is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of the Holy Paraskeva to back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Church of the Holy Paraskeva → back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii to Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Hurez - Arsură 1 & 2 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.