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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From Cizer it runs 345 km to Cizer; allow about 6 h 53 of riding. The stops in between: Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor, Lozna - Curmăturița 1, Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului and Church of the Holy Archangels. The line favours views over speed.
Some frontiers look dramatic on the map and modest on the ground, and the Roman watchtower site on Dealul Prislop near Hurez is a good example. Here, in the hills of Sălaj county in northwestern Romania, archaeologists have identified a series of small towers on high ground along the western frontier of Roman Dacia, which ran along the Meseș mountains and the hills around them. The towers were part of a chain of observation posts linked by signals, controlling movement across the frontier, and they are now included in the UNESCO listing of the Dacian frontier. Little is visible except low mounds and the shape of the land, but the views from the ridges explain why the Romans chose these spots.
Read the complete Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 write-up.
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Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 is where the day begins. Next is Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor.
Roman Dacia's north-western frontier ran along the crest of the Meseș mountains, and the hill country around Mirșid, east of Zalău, is laced with its traces: watchtowers, earthworks and small forts placed so that each could see the next. In 2024 these remains became part of the World Heritage listing for the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. The name of the spot, La Strâmtură by the wolves' brook, gives a fair idea of its character: a narrow place in the hills, wooded and quiet, where the eye has to work to pick out a low mound or a ditch in the grass.
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Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor comes up about 41 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.
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about 82 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.
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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.
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Church of the Holy Archangels sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului.
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back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului comes up about 219 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
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about 262 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1. Next is back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor.
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back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor, late in the day. Next is Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5.
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The route ends here after 345 km.
Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 → Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor → Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 41 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 Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor → Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.