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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237 km from Cristeștii Ciceului to Cristeștii Ciceului, about 4 h 38 of riding. On the way it passes Muncel - Cărămidă, Cliț - Fața Chicerii, Porolissum and back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii. 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.
Read the complete Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal write-up.
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Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is where the day begins. Next is Muncel - Cărămidă.
In northern Transylvania, where the Someș river winds through low hills between Dej and Beclean, the Roman Empire once ran out of land and patience. The province of Dacia, conquered by Trajan in the early second century, had a long and complicated frontier, and in 2024 parts of it were added to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Muncel–Cărămidă is one of those components, a small military site above the valley near Poiana Blenchii, part of a network of watchtowers and forts that guarded the northern edge of the province. The big fort of Porolissum, near Zalău to the west, with its reconstructed gate, gives you a sense of what the bigger garrisons looked like.
Read the complete Muncel - Cărămidă write-up.
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Muncel - Cărămidă comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Cliț - Fața Chicerii. Next is Porolissum.
On a hill above the village of Moigrad, the Roman town of Porolissum guarded a key pass through the Meseș mountains, the gateway to Roman Dacia from the north-west. Founded as a military camp after the conquest in 106, it grew into a town of thousands, with a large fort, an amphitheatre, temples, baths and a customs post, and it became a municipium, a self-governing city, under the emperor Septimius Severus. The ruins are among the most impressive Roman remains in Romania, with a reconstructed fort gate, walls and parts of the town, and they are part of the frontier sites of Roman Dacia.
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Porolissum, about halfway. Next is back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
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Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii sits at 135 km, about halfway. Next is back through Muncel - Cărămidă.
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Read the complete Muncel - Cărămidă write-up.
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back through Muncel - Cărămidă comes up about 201 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal.
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Read the complete Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal write-up.
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Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal closes the day.
Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal → Muncel - Cărămidă is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muncel - Cărămidă → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Porolissum is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Porolissum → back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Muncel - Cărămidă is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muncel - Cărămidă → Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.