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 Fundata it runs 277 km to Fundata; allow about 5 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, Hoghiz - La Cetate and back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Between Bran and Rucăr, the road climbs over the saddle that separates the Bucegi mountains from Piatra Craiului, through a landscape of high meadows, hay barns, scattered farms and limestone peaks. The name Drumul Carului, the cart road, recalls the old route across this pass, which has linked Transylvania and Wallachia for centuries, and archaeologists have recorded a Roman-era site here, part of the network of frontier and road posts in Dacia. Fundata, at the top, is one of the highest villages in Romania, at around 1,350 metres, and the scattered houses of Moieciu, Peștera and Șirnea spread across the hills around it.
Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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Moieciu - Drumul Carului is where the day begins. Next is Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
In the Burzenland plain east of Brașov, the village of Prejmer, known to its Saxon founders as Tartlau, is home to one of the most remarkable buildings in Romania: a fortified church surrounded by massive circular walls, with hundreds of storage rooms built into them on several levels. The church was begun in the thirteenth century by the Teutonic Knights, who were invited into the region by the Hungarian king to defend the frontier, and later strengthened by the Saxon villagers, who built the walls to protect themselves against Ottoman and Tatar raids. It is part of the UNESCO listing of villages with fortified churches in Transylvania.
Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
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Village of Prejmer-Tartlau comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hoghiz - La Cetate.
Where the Olt river bends around the Perșani mountains, between the Saxon villages of southern Transylvania and the Székely country to the east, the land rises into wooded hills, and near the village of Hoghiz, on a terrace above the river, lies an archaeological site known simply as La Cetate, the fortress. The Romans guarded this stretch of the Olt with forts, part of the defensive system of their province of Dacia, and the name hints at an old fortified place that once watched over the valley.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Hoghiz - La Cetate. Next is back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, late in the day. Next is Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Moieciu - Drumul Carului. That is the ride.
Moieciu - Drumul Carului → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 58 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Hoghiz - La Cetate is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hoghiz - La Cetate → back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 58 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.