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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From Albota de Jos it runs 348 km to Albota de Jos; allow about 6 h 53 of riding. It goes by way of Stolniceni - Buridava Romană, Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude and back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Mareș - La Stadion is where the day begins. Next is Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
South of Râmnicu Vâlcea the Olt river leaves the mountains and broadens across a valley of orchards and villages, and on the terraces above it at Stolniceni lie the remains of Buridava, a Roman military settlement whose name the Romans borrowed from an older Dacian centre nearby. It sat on the Limes Alutanus, the frontier road along the Olt that guarded the eastern edge of Roman Dacia, and soldiers stationed here left inscriptions, bricks stamped with unit marks and the foundations of baths. The site is part of the Dacian frontier listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
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Stolniceni - Buridava Romană comes up about 88 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
The Olt does something improbable south of Sibiu. Instead of going around the Carpathians, it cuts straight through them, carving a deep, winding gorge between the Făgăraș and Lotru ranges, and for two thousand years that gorge has been one of the great gateways between Transylvania and Wallachia. At its northern mouth, near the village of Boița, the Romans built a fort they called Caput Stenarum, the head of the narrows, to guard the entrance.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. Next is back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană, late in the day. Next is Mareș - La Stadion.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mareș - La Stadion write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mareș - La Stadion. That is the ride.
Mareș - La Stadion → Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Mareș - La Stadion is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.