Why this ride
An 82 km round trip from Albota de Jos - roughly 1 h 48 in the saddle. It goes by way of Izbășești - Valea Albă, Afrimești - Urluieni and back through Izbășești - Valea Albă.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mareș - La Stadion and Afrimești - Urluieni
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 82 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 48
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Mareș - La Stadion
Pitești is the kind of city most riders pass through on the way somewhere else, and the somewhere else is usually the Transfăgărășan. The famous road over the Făgăraș mountains begins north of here, beyond Curtea de Argeș, and the hills of Argeș county around Albota and Mareș, just south-west of Pitești, are where many people start the day.
Read the complete Mareș - La Stadion write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mareș - La Stadion is where the day begins. Next is Izbășești - Valea Albă.
2. Izbășești - Valea Albă
Between Pitești and Slatina, in the south of Romania, the land falls away from the Carpathian foothills towards the great Danube plain in a series of long, low ridges cut by streams. It is farming country, with fields of maize and sunflowers, orchards, vineyards and small villages strung along the valleys. Izbășești and the valley called Valea Albă, the White Valley, lie in this landscape near the small town of Stolnici, and the site recorded here is one of the many archaeological traces in the area, though there is probably little to see on the ground.
Read the complete Izbășești - Valea Albă write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Izbășești - Valea Albă comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Afrimești - Urluieni.
3. Afrimești - Urluieni
Flat. That is the first impression of this part of southern Romania, in Argeș county, where the land stretches away towards the Danube in wide fields of maize and sunflowers, broken only by lines of trees and small villages. But across this plain, in the second century AD, the Romans built a frontier: the Limes Transalutanus, a line of earthworks and forts running north to south east of the Olt river, protecting the province of Dacia. At Urluieni, near the village of Afrimești, stood one of its forts.
Read the complete Afrimești - Urluieni write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 42 km into the recorded legs you reach Afrimești - Urluieni. Next is back through Izbășești - Valea Albă.
4. back through Izbășești - Valea Albă
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Izbășești - Valea Albă write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Izbășești - Valea Albă, late in the day. Next is Mareș - La Stadion.
5. Mareș - La Stadion
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mareș - La Stadion write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mareș - La Stadion. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mareș - La Stadion to Izbășești - Valea Albă
Mareș - La Stadion → Izbășești - Valea Albă is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Izbășești - Valea Albă to Afrimești - Urluieni
Izbășești - Valea Albă → Afrimești - Urluieni is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Afrimești - Urluieni to back through Izbășești - Valea Albă
Afrimești - Urluieni → back through Izbășești - Valea Albă is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Izbășești - Valea Albă to Mareș - La Stadion
back through Izbășești - Valea Albă → Mareș - La Stadion is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.