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 Stârciu it runs 276 km to Stârciu; allow about 5 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Poieni - Horhiș, Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine, Cliț - Fața Chicerii and back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine. The line favours views over speed.
The ridge of the Meseş mountains runs like a low, wooded wall across northern Transylvania, and the Romans, after they conquered Dacia in AD 106, made it the northern frontier of their new province. They built forts in the valleys, watchtowers on the high points and a road to link them, and this area near Hurez and Cornet lies within that line. The name on our list, Sub Cornet, means below the Cornet, which suggests a hill or ridge overhead, and the pattern of sites around here is of small watchtowers positioned to see along the valleys.
Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 write-up.
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Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 is where the day begins. Next is Poieni - Horhiș.
The Crisul Repede is the river that cuts through the Apuseni Mountains in north-western Romania, and it carries the main road and the railway between Cluj and Oradea along its valley. Poieni and Horhis lie on the hills just above this corridor, in the zone where the great bulk of the Apuseni gives way to lower, rolling farmland. Ciucea, down in the valley, is the nearest village of any size, and is known for a small castle that once belonged to Octavian Goga, a Romanian poet who briefly served as prime minister in the 1930s. He is buried there, and the house is now a museum.
Read the complete Poieni - Horhiș write-up.
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Poieni - Horhiș comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine.
Zalău is the county town of Sălaj, a modern small city of about sixty thousand people that grew fast in the communist period, and the countryside around it is far more interesting than the blocks of flats. Brusturi, a few kilometres off, sits in the hills that lead up toward the Meseş mountains, and the name on our list points to a Roman fort called Certiae, one of the line of military posts that kept watch on the northern edge of Dacia, along with a ruin the locals link with an old legend of robbers.
Read the complete Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine write-up.
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about 106 km into the recorded legs you reach Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine. Next is 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.
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Cliț - Fața Chicerii, about halfway. Next is back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine.
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Read the complete Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine write-up.
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back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Poieni - Horhiș.
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Read the complete Poieni - Horhiș write-up.
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back through Poieni - Horhiș comes up about 228 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hurez - Sub Cornet 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 write-up.
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Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 closes the day.
Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 → Poieni - Horhiș is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Poieni - Horhiș → Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brusturi - Certiae / LaTâlhăroasei Ruine → back through Poieni - Horhiș is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Poieni - Horhiș → Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.