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 205 km to Cizer; allow about 4 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Stâna - La Oroieși, Tihău - Grădiște, Rogna - La Bontauă and back through Tihău - Grădiște. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Stâna - La Oroieși.
On the hills above Zalău, in the county of Sălaj in northwestern Romania, the Roman Empire reached its northern limit in Dacia. After Trajan conquered the Dacian kingdom in 106, the Romans built a frontier system along the edges of the new province, with forts, watchtowers, walls and ditches, and in 2024 UNESCO listed it as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. The site at Stâna, La Oroieși, is one of many small elements of that frontier: a watchtower or defensive line on a ridge, where soldiers watched over the approaches from the free Dacian lands beyond. There is little to see on the ground, but the location, with views over the hills, explains why it was chosen.
Read the complete Stâna - La Oroieși write-up.
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Stâna - La Oroieși comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tihău - Grădiște.
The Someș river makes its way through the hills of north-western Romania between Cluj and Baia Mare, and near the small town of Jibou, in Sălaj county, it passes through a narrow valley guarded on its slopes by the remains of a Roman fort. The site, known locally as Grădiște, which simply means old fort, lies above the village of Tihău, close to Surduc and Gâlgău Almașului.
Read the complete Tihău - Grădiște write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Tihău - Grădiște. Next is Rogna - La Bontauă.
Rogna is a scatter of farms in the hills of northern Sălaj, close to the Someș valley and the border with Maramureș, and La Bontauă is the name the locals give to a piece of high ground where a Roman frontier site has been recorded. The northern edge of Roman Dacia ran through these hills, and the Romans placed watchtowers and small forts on high points to keep an eye on the river valleys and the free Dacians to the north. Today there is little to see apart from the shape of the land, but the view over the rolling hills makes it easy to imagine a sentry looking out across the valley.
Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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Rogna - La Bontauă, about halfway. Next is back through Tihău - Grădiște.
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Read the complete Tihău - Grădiște write-up.
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back through Tihău - Grădiște sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stâna - La Oroieși.
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Read the complete Stâna - La Oroieși write-up.
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back through Stâna - La Oroieși comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 write-up.
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Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 closes the day.
Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 → Stâna - La Oroieși is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stâna - La Oroieși → Tihău - Grădiște is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Grădiște → Rogna - La Bontauă is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rogna - La Bontauă → back through Tihău - Grădiște is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tihău - Grădiște → back through Stâna - La Oroieși is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stâna - La Oroieși → Hurez - Dealul Prislop 5 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.