CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Uriu it runs 272 km to Uriu; allow about 6 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Perișor - Vârful Zgăului, 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.
Ilișua is a small village near Uriu in the valley of the Someș Mare, and in Roman times it was the site of a fort guarding the northern frontier of Dacia. The fort, known in antiquity as Arcobara, housed a cavalry unit, and archaeologists have uncovered its walls, gates and buildings, along with inscriptions and finds now displayed in museums in the region. Like the other sites of the Roman frontier in Romania, it is part of a nomination for UNESCO world heritage, and like most of them, it is now largely fields and grassy banks, with little to see above ground but a great deal of history beneath.
Read the complete Ilișua - Țibleș write-up.
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Ilișua - Țibleș is where the day begins. Next is Perișor - Vârful Zgăului.
Perișor lies in the hills north of Năsăud, in the county of Bistrița-Năsăud, and Vârful Zgăului is the hilltop to which the label points. Zagra and Spermezeu are the nearest villages, while the great wall of the Rodna Mountains stands to the east, the highest part of the northern Eastern Carpathians, with peaks over two thousand metres and glacial lakes among the crags. The Rodna range is a national park and a biosphere reserve, home to chamois, marmots, brown bears and a rich alpine flora. On a clear day the sharp, pale line of the ridge can be seen from many of the hills around.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Zgăului write-up.
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Perișor - Vârful Zgăului 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.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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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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Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci sits at 112 km, about halfway. Next is back through Perișor - Vârful Zgăului.
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Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Zgăului write-up.
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back through Perișor - Vârful Zgăului comes up 140 km in. Next is Ilișua - Țibleș.
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Read the complete Ilișua - Țibleș write-up.
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Ilișua - Țibleș closes the day.
Ilișua - Țibleș → Perișor - Vârful Zgăului is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perișor - Vârful Zgăului → 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 Zgăului is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Perișor - Vârful Zgăului → Ilișua - Țibleș is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.