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 146 km to Stârciu; allow about 3 h 37 of riding. The stops in between: Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor, Românași - Largiana / Cetate and back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor.
The hill of Dealul Cocinilor rises above the valley of the Crișul Repede near Ciucea, on the western edge of Cluj county, and it marks another point on the Roman frontier of Dacia, this time in the Meseș mountains, where the limes ran along the hills protecting the province of Dacia Porolissensis. The watchtowers here guarded the approaches from the west and north, and from the hilltop you can still see why: the valley below is a natural corridor, used by traders, armies and travellers for thousands of years.
Read the complete Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor write-up.
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Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Românași - Largiana / Cetate.
At Românași, in the valley of the Agrij in Sălaj county, the outline of a Roman fort called Largiana can still be traced on a low rise above the village, its rectangle of ramparts and ditches softened by centuries of ploughing. It stood on the road that ran from Porolissum, the great frontier stronghold to the north, down towards Napoca, today's Cluj, and it housed an auxiliary unit guarding the approach to the Meseș mountains. Archaeologists have found inscriptions, coins and pottery here, and the site is part of the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Românași - Largiana / Cetate write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Românași - Largiana / Cetate. Next is back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor, late in the day. Next is Hurez - Sub Cornet 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hurez - Sub Cornet 1. That is the ride.
Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 → Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor → Românași - Largiana / Cetate is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Românași - Largiana / Cetate → back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vânători - Dealul Cocinilor → Hurez - Sub Cornet 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.