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 Mârţeşti it runs 321 km to Mârţeşti; allow about 7 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Stolniceni - Buridava Romană, Câmpulung - Jidova 1 and back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 81 km this is Transfagarasan Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
South of the Carpathians, where the Wallachian plain starts to lift into hills, there is a quiet stretch of the Argeș county, and this point lies near Lunca Corbului, in a landscape of low ridges, orchards and wide fields. The name Cetate simply means fortress or citadel in Romanian, and the label suggests a place where an old defensive site was recorded, whether Roman or older.
Read the complete Mârțești - Cetate write-up.
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Mârțești - Cetate 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 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
Câmpulung Muscel lies at the foot of the Carpathians in northern Argeș county, and it claims the title of the first capital of Wallachia. Tradition credits its founding as a princely seat to the legendary Negru Vodă in the thirteenth century, and the old princely court and the Negru Vodă monastery in the town centre recall those early days of the Romanian principality. The town spreads along the valley of the Râul Târgului, with the mountains of Iezer and Piatra Craiului rising steeply to the north.
Read the complete Câmpulung - Jidova 1 write-up.
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about 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Câmpulung - Jidova 1. 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 Mârțești - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mârțești - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mârțești - Cetate. That is the ride.
Mârțești - Cetate → Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Mârțești - Cetate is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.