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 539 km to Fundata; allow about 12 h 27 of riding. The stops in between: Voinești - Măilătoaia, Codrul secular Șinca, Cincșor - Cetate and Village of Viscri. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 Voinești - Măilătoaia.
The Rucăr-Bran corridor is one of the oldest passages through the Carpathians, and at its southern end, in the hills around Câmpulung Muscel, the Romans built a frontier line to guard it. The Limes Transalutanus, the frontier east of the Olt, ran north through this area, and small forts and watchtowers like the one at Voinești-Măilătoaia watched the valleys and the approaches to the pass. The sites are now low earthworks in fields and forest edges, and they belong to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
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Voinești - Măilătoaia comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul secular Șinca. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Between Sibiu and Făgăraș, the Olt flows through a broad valley, with the long wall of the Făgăraș mountains rising to the south, the highest in Romania, culminating in Moldoveanu at 2,544 metres. On the north bank, near the Saxon village of Cincșor, known in German as Kleinschenk, the Romans built a fort to guard the river crossing and the road along the valley. The site, known locally as Cetate, the fortress, lies in fields near the village, with only faint traces visible.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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Cincșor - Cetate, about halfway. Next is Village of Viscri.
Viscri is the village people picture when they think of Transylvania's Saxon heritage, and it more or less lives up to it. A single long street of pastel houses, blue, ochre and white, stands gable end to the road, with geese in the ditch, horse carts at dusk and, at the top of the slope, a fortified church wrapped in thick white walls. It is part of the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania listed by UNESCO, and it is one of the best preserved.
Read the complete Village of Viscri write-up.
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Village of Viscri sits at 171 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cincșor - Cetate.
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Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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back through Cincșor - Cetate comes up about 320 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Codrul secular Șinca.
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Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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about 404 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Codrul secular Șinca. Next is back through Voinești - Măilătoaia.
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Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
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back through Voinești - Măilătoaia, late in the day. Next is Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
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Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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The route ends here after 539 km.
Moieciu - Drumul Carului → Voinești - Măilătoaia is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voinești - Măilătoaia → Codrul secular Șinca is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → Cincșor - Cetate is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cincșor - Cetate → Village of Viscri is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Viscri → back through Cincșor - Cetate is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cincșor - Cetate → back through Codrul secular Șinca is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Codrul secular Șinca → back through Voinești - Măilătoaia is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Voinești - Măilătoaia → Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.