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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170 km from Poieni to Poieni, about 3 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Treznea - Cărbunarea, Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor, Lozna - Curmăturița 1 and back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Huedin is the gateway to the Apuseni Mountains, and most travellers go straight through it on the road from Cluj to Oradea without looking up. The town, of about nine thousand, sits on a plain between the Calata hills and the Vladeasa massif, which rises to nearly eighteen hundred metres to the south, and it has a mixed Romanian and Hungarian population, with the Hungarian name Banffyhunyad still seen on old maps. The countryside around, known as the Calata area, is famous for its folk costume and embroidery, and on feast days the women still wear elaborate dress.
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Huta is where the day begins. Next is Treznea - Cărbunarea.
Treznea is a quiet village in the hills southeast of Zalău, the kind of place where the loudest sound is a cockerel or a tractor. Yet its name carries a heavy weight in Romanian memory. In September 1940, shortly after northern Transylvania was transferred to Hungary under the Second Vienna Award, Hungarian troops entering the area killed dozens of villagers here, Romanians and Jews, and burned houses. A memorial in the village commemorates the victims. It is a sombre reminder that the beautiful hills of Transylvania have seen terrible things.
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Treznea - Cărbunarea comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
Dealul Tărăvăilor is a hill above the village of Var, near Creaca and Jibou, in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, and like many hilltops in this part of the country, it held a Roman watchtower on the frontier of the province of Dacia. The Limes Porolissensis, as the northern frontier is known, was a system of towers, forts and earthworks guarding the roads leading to the great fortress of Porolissum, and the towers were placed on hills with views over the valleys, so that signals could pass quickly along the line.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor. 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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Lozna - Curmăturița 1, about halfway. Next is back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
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Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Treznea - Cărbunarea.
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Read the complete Treznea - Cărbunarea write-up.
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back through Treznea - Cărbunarea comes up about 140 km into the recorded legs. Next is Huta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Huta write-up.
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Huta closes the day.
Huta → Treznea - Cărbunarea is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Treznea - Cărbunarea → Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → back through Treznea - Cărbunarea is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Treznea - Cărbunarea → Huta is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.