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 Câţcău it runs 532 km to Câţcău; allow about 11 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Cliț - Fața Chicerii, Porolissum, Huta - Salhiger and Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
On the hills between the valley of the Someș and the Meseș mountains, in the north-west of Transylvania, the ground rises in gentle ridges, and this is the highest point in a small stretch of country near the villages of Vad, Gâlgău and Poiana Blenchii. The label is Muncel, meaning little hill, and Comorița, which carries the sense of a small treasure, and both names tell you about the country: low, open, rounded hills, used for generations as pasture and orchard land. A lot of local folklore has treasure buried in hills like this, and many an old shepherd has a tale of a hoard or a lost mine.
Read the complete Muncel - Comorița write-up.
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Muncel - Comorița 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 50 km into the recorded legs. Next is Porolissum.
On a hill above the village of Moigrad, the Roman town of Porolissum guarded a key pass through the Meseș mountains, the gateway to Roman Dacia from the north-west. Founded as a military camp after the conquest in 106, it grew into a town of thousands, with a large fort, an amphitheatre, temples, baths and a customs post, and it became a municipium, a self-governing city, under the emperor Septimius Severus. The ruins are among the most impressive Roman remains in Romania, with a reconstructed fort gate, walls and parts of the town, and they are part of the frontier sites of Roman Dacia.
Read the complete Porolissum write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Porolissum. Next is Huta - Salhiger.
Huta is a Romanian word for a glassworks or ironworks, and the name usually points to an old forest industry: a place where charcoal burners and glassblowers once worked in clearings in the beech woods. The village of this name lies in the hills between Ciucea, in Cluj county, and the villages of Cizer and Stârciu in the neighbouring county of Sălaj, in the broken country where the Meseș and Plopiș mountains meet.
Read the complete Huta - Salhiger write-up.
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Huta - Salhiger, about halfway. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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Roșia Montană Mining Landscape sits at 209 km, about halfway. Next is back through Huta - Salhiger.
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Read the complete Huta - Salhiger write-up.
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back through Huta - Salhiger comes up about 411 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Porolissum.
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Read the complete Porolissum write-up.
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about 450 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Porolissum. 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 Muncel - Comorița.
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Read the complete Muncel - Comorița write-up.
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The route ends here after 532 km.
Muncel - Comorița → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Porolissum is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Porolissum → Huta - Salhiger is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Huta - Salhiger → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 145 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → back through Huta - Salhiger is 145 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Huta - Salhiger → back through Porolissum is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Porolissum → back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Muncel - Comorița is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.