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 255 km to Zalău; allow about 4 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Hurez - Sub Cornet, Bologa - Grădiște, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and back through Bologa - Grădiște. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Romans did not build their frontier in Dacia as a single wall. They built it as a chain of forts, watchtowers and signal posts along the crest of the Meseș mountains in what is now north-western Romania, and Moigrad is where the chain had its main fortress. The ancient town was called Porolissum, and it controlled the Meseș Gate, a natural pass through the ridge, where merchants paid customs and soldiers watched for raiders from the north. Walk the site today and you find an amphitheatre, a forum, a temple, stretches of the fort wall and long grassy slopes, all overlooking the green valley below.
Read the complete Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus write-up.
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Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus is where the day begins. Next is Hurez - Sub Cornet.
The hills of Sălaj between Buciumi, Stârciu and Cizer are a landscape of small villages, orchards, pastures and woods, and like much of this county, they were part of the northwestern frontier of Roman Dacia. Hurez, Sub Cornet, is one of the sites of that frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024, probably a watchtower or a stretch of defensive earthwork on a ridge, part of the chain of military posts that linked the forts. Little is visible on the ground today, and the site is better appreciated as part of a wider landscape of Roman frontier archaeology.
Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet write-up.
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Hurez - Sub Cornet comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bologa - Grădiște.
The village of Bologa lies in the valley of the Crișul Repede, on the main road between Cluj-Napoca and Oradea, where the river cuts through the hills between the Apuseni mountains and the Meseș. On a hill above the village, known locally as Grădiște, the Romans built the fort of Resculum, which guarded one of the main routes into the province of Dacia from the west. The fort was rebuilt several times, from earth and timber to stone, and archaeologists have uncovered its walls, gates and towers. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. On another hill above the village stand the ruins of a medieval castle, which controlled the same valley in later centuries. Climbing to either site gives fine views over the valley and the surrounding hills.
Read the complete Bologa - Grădiște write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Bologa - Grădiște. Next is Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
Gilau sits where the flat plain of the Somesul Mic river meets the first hills of the Apuseni mountains, about fifteen kilometres west of Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and the hill called Dealul Cetatii, which simply means Fortress Hill, rises almost on the edge of the town, about a kilometre away. The town has nearly eight thousand people, and from the road you can see the high, forested ridges of the Apuseni to the west.
Read the complete Gilău - Dealul Cetății write-up.
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Gilău - Dealul Cetății, about halfway. Next is back through Bologa - Grădiște.
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Read the complete Bologa - Grădiște write-up.
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back through Bologa - Grădiște sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hurez - Sub Cornet.
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Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet write-up.
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back through Hurez - Sub Cornet comes up about 225 km into the recorded legs. Next is Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus closes the day.
Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus → Hurez - Sub Cornet is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurez - Sub Cornet → Bologa - Grădiște is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bologa - Grădiște → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Bologa - Grădiște is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bologa - Grădiște → back through Hurez - Sub Cornet is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurez - Sub Cornet → Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.