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 Zalău it runs 308 km to Zalău; allow about 6 h 04 of riding. It goes by way of Cliț - Fața Chicerii, Muncel - Cărămidă, Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal and Salva - Dealul Dumbravă. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Mirșid sits on the southern flank of the Meseș Mountains, in the county of Sălaj, a few kilometres from Zalău, and it is almost within sight of one of the best Roman sites in Romania. Porolissum, on the ridge above the village of Moigrad, was the capital of the Roman province of Dacia Porolissensis and a great frontier post on the northern edge of the empire, with large military forts, an amphitheatre, a customs post and a town with temples and baths, built after Trajan's conquest of Dacia in the early second century AD. The site is now an archaeological park, with the outline of the fort on a spur and, below, an amphitheatre cut into the hillside, and from the walls you can look over the Meseș Gate, the pass the Romans were guarding.
Read the complete Mirșid - Poguior write-up.
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Mirșid - Poguior is where the day begins. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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Cliț - Fața Chicerii comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Muncel - Cărămidă.
In northern Transylvania, where the Someș river winds through low hills between Dej and Beclean, the Roman Empire once ran out of land and patience. The province of Dacia, conquered by Trajan in the early second century, had a long and complicated frontier, and in 2024 parts of it were added to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Muncel–Cărămidă is one of those components, a small military site above the valley near Poiana Blenchii, part of a network of watchtowers and forts that guarded the northern edge of the province. The big fort of Porolissum, near Zalău to the west, with its reconstructed gate, gives you a sense of what the bigger garrisons looked like.
Read the complete Muncel - Cărămidă write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Muncel - Cărămidă. Next is Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal.
A Roman cavalry regiment kept its horses near the village of Ilișua, in the hills of northern Transylvania, for most of the time the province of Dacia existed. The fort, which modern archaeologists link with the ancient name Arcobara, was a large stone camp on the northern frontier, and its remains have been excavated over the years. It is part of the frontier of Roman Dacia listed by UNESCO in 2024. Today the site is a field with low walls and grassy mounds, and the neighbouring villages of Uriu, Cristeștii Ciceului and Braniștea go about their business around it.
Read the complete Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal write-up.
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Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal, about halfway. Next is Salva - Dealul Dumbravă.
The Someșul Mare valley around Năsăud was a frontier long before the Habsburgs made it one again. The Romans built watchtowers on the hills here to guard the northern edge of Dacia, and Salva - Dealul Dumbravă, the hill of the oak grove near the village of Salva, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of the Dacian frontier in 2024. Sixteen centuries later, the Habsburg empire turned the region into a military border district, and the Năsăud border regiment, made up of local Romanian peasants, guarded the Carpathian passes in return for privileges and education.
Read the complete Salva - Dealul Dumbravă write-up.
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Salva - Dealul Dumbravă sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal.
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Read the complete Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal write-up.
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back through Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Muncel - Cărămidă.
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Read the complete Muncel - Cărămidă write-up.
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about 221 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Muncel - Cărămidă. Next is back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
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Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii, late in the day. Next is Mirșid - Poguior.
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Read the complete Mirșid - Poguior write-up.
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The route ends here after 308 km.
Mirșid - Poguior → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Muncel - Cărămidă is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muncel - Cărămidă → Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal → Salva - Dealul Dumbravă is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Salva - Dealul Dumbravă → back through Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ilișua - Arcobara / Vicinal → back through Muncel - Cărămidă is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muncel - Cărămidă → back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Mirșid - Poguior is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.