CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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277 km from Cristeștii Ciceului to Cristeștii Ciceului, about 6 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Perișor - Vârful Colnicului, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, Church of the Holy Parasceve and back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
A Roman cavalry regiment kept its horses near the village of Ilișua, in the hills of northern Transylvania, for most of the time the province of Dacia existed. The fort, which modern archaeologists link with the ancient name Arcobara, was a large stone camp on the northern frontier, and its remains have been excavated over the years. It is part of the frontier of Roman Dacia listed by UNESCO in 2024. Today the site is a field with low walls and grassy mounds, and the neighbouring villages of Uriu, Cristeștii Ciceului and Braniștea go about their business around it.
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Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is where the day begins. Next is Perișor - Vârful Colnicului.
The upper valley of the Zagra stream, in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Transylvania, is the sort of place that has produced poets. The village of Hordou, now named Coșbuc, birthplace of the poet George Coșbuc, lies not far away, near Năsăud, and Liviu Rebreanu, one of Romania's great novelists, was born in Târlișua, a little to the west. The hills around Perișor and Zagra, with the summit called Vârful Colnicului, are a landscape of meadows, beech woods and scattered farms that seems to have stepped out of their books.
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Perișor - Vârful Colnicului comes up 28 km in. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
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56 km in you reach Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. Next is Church of the Holy Parasceve.
Maramureș is one of the few corners of Europe where wood is still the language of the sacred, and the church of Saint Parascheva at Poienile Izei is a good place to learn it. It stands on a small rise above the Izei valley, a dark timber church with a steep, double-tiered shingled roof and a slender spire, built in the early seventeenth century and moved to its present spot later. Inside, the walls and ceiling carry painted scenes from the eighteenth century, and the one that always gets quoted is a vivid Last Judgment in which sinners get remarkably specific punishments.
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Church of the Holy Parasceve, about halfway. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci sits at 112 km, about halfway. Next is back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului.
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back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului comes up 140 km in. Next is Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal.
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Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal closes the day.
Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal → Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Church of the Holy Parasceve is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Parasceve → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Perișor - Vârful Colnicului → Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.