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 357 km to Albota de Jos; allow about 6 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Afrimești - Urluieni, Gresia - La Biserică, Băneasa - La Cetate and Corabia - Sucidava / Celei. It crosses from Romania into Bulgaria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. 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 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.
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Afrimești - Urluieni comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gresia - La Biserică.
The Wallachian plain in southern Romania is about as flat as Europe gets: a vast expanse of wheat, maize and sunflower fields stretching to the horizon, broken only by lines of acacia trees, irrigation channels and villages strung along the road. Teleorman county, where Gresia lies, is in the heart of it. Two thousand years ago, this was frontier land. The Romans built a long earthwork rampart with forts and towers running north to south east of the river Olt, known as the Limes Transalutanus, to protect their province of Dacia. Gresia and the sites around it, including Roșiorii de Vede, Crâmpoia and Izbășești, lie along its line. Little survives above ground, and the remains need a trained eye or an archaeologist's map to spot, but the idea of a Roman frontier running through these fields adds depth to a landscape that can seem empty.
Read the complete Gresia - La Biserică write-up.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Gresia - La Biserică. Next is Băneasa - La Cetate.
Băneasa is Teleorman, and Teleorman is flat. The Wallachian plain here spreads out between the Danube, to the south, and the lower Vedea valley, with big fields, long horizons and the sort of sky that makes motorcyclists look for any rise at all. The label "La Cetate" marks one such rise, where traces of an old fortification are known locally, and the nearby "Traian - La Culă" name hints at the Roman presence that once ran across this part of southern Romania.
Read the complete Băneasa - La Cetate write-up.
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Băneasa - La Cetate, about halfway. Next is Corabia - Sucidava / Celei.
At Celei, a few kilometres from Corabia on the Danube, the Romans built a bridge. It is a thing worth pausing over, because the bridge was built in AD 328, in the time of Constantine the Great, and it linked the Roman fortress of Sucidava on the northern bank with the province on the other side. The bridge was nearly two and a half kilometres long, one of the grandest engineering projects of the late empire, and it gave Rome a way to project power across the river long after the rest of the frontier had begun to crumble. A later emperor, Justinian, rebuilt Sucidava in the sixth century, and the fortress was in use for a very long time.
Read the complete Corabia - Sucidava / Celei write-up.
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Corabia - Sucidava / Celei sits at 190 km, about halfway. Next is back through Băneasa - La Cetate.
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Read the complete Băneasa - La Cetate write-up.
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back through Băneasa - La Cetate comes up about 236 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Gresia - La Biserică.
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Read the complete Gresia - La Biserică write-up.
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about 269 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Gresia - La Biserică. Next is back through Afrimești - Urluieni.
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Read the complete Afrimești - Urluieni write-up.
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back through Afrimești - Urluieni, late in the day. Next is Mareș - La Stadion.
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Read the complete Mareș - La Stadion write-up.
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The route ends here after 357 km.
Mareș - La Stadion → Afrimești - Urluieni is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Afrimești - Urluieni → Gresia - La Biserică is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gresia - La Biserică → Băneasa - La Cetate is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Băneasa - La Cetate → Corabia - Sucidava / Celei is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corabia - Sucidava / Celei → back through Băneasa - La Cetate is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Băneasa - La Cetate → back through Gresia - La Biserică is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gresia - La Biserică → back through Afrimești - Urluieni is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Afrimești - Urluieni → Mareș - La Stadion is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.