Why this ride
124 km from Mârţeşti to Mârţeşti, about 2 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Afrimești - Urluieni, Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor and back through Afrimești - Urluieni. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mârțești - Cetate and Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 124 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 55
- 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. Mârțești - Cetate
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mârțești - Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Afrimești - Urluieni.
2. 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
Afrimești - Urluieni comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor.
3. Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor
Out on the flat Romanian plain east of the Olt river, the village of Crâmpoia sits among endless fields of wheat, maize and sunflowers, and its name has a place in Roman history. A Roman earthen fort near the village stood on the Limes Transalutanus, the frontier line that the Romans built east of the Olt in the early third century, running from the Danube northward toward the Carpathians, a long earthen rampart with forts and watchtowers. The local name Reduta Tătarilor, the Tatars' redoubt, reflects a common habit in Romania of attributing old earthworks to the Tatars or other invaders, long after the Romans were forgotten. The site is part of the UNESCO-listed frontier of Dacia.
Read the complete Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor. Next is back through Afrimești - Urluieni.
4. back through Afrimești - Urluieni
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
back through Afrimești - Urluieni, late in the day. Next is Mârțești - Cetate.
5. Mârțești - Cetate
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mârțești - Cetate write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mârțești - Cetate. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mârțești - Cetate to Afrimești - Urluieni
Mârțești - Cetate → Afrimești - Urluieni is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Afrimești - Urluieni to Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor
Afrimești - Urluieni → Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor to back through Afrimești - Urluieni
Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor → back through Afrimești - Urluieni is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Afrimești - Urluieni to Mârțești - Cetate
back through Afrimești - Urluieni → Mârțești - Cetate is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.