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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A 316 km round trip from Odorheiu Secuiesc - roughly 6 h 04 in the saddle. It goes by way of Baraolt - Véczer, Reci - Cetate, Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu and back through Reci - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Odorheiu Secuiesc is a town that answers to two names, and if you ask for directions you will probably hear the Hungarian one, Székelyudvarhely. This is the heart of Székely Land, the Hungarian-speaking corner of eastern Transylvania, and the signs, the church spires and the way people greet you all make that plain within a minute of arriving. Piatra Coțofană, the Magpie Stone, is one of the rocky heights on the hills around the town, a few kilometres out among pasture and beech woods.
Read the complete Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană write-up.
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Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is where the day begins. Next is Baraolt - Véczer.
In Baraolt you are more likely to hear Hungarian than Romanian. This small town lies in Covasna County, in the heart of the Székely Land, where the Székely Hungarian community has lived for centuries, with its own traditions, carved wooden gates, Calvinist and Catholic churches and a fierce sense of identity. Véczer, near Baraolt, is one of the points on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, where small forts and watchtowers watched over the passes through the eastern Carpathians, and it belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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Baraolt - Véczer comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Reci - Cetate.
Reci lies on the flat floor of the Târgu Secuiesc basin, in Covasna county, where the Olt river meanders between mountains in the heart of the Szekler Land, the Hungarian-speaking region of eastern Transylvania. The site known as Reci - Cetate, the fortress, belongs to the eastern line of the Roman frontier in Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire inscribed in 2024. The Romans guarded the passes through the Carpathians with forts and towers here, though today the site is little more than a raised area in the fields.
Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
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about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Reci - Cetate. Next is Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu.
There is a narrow gap in the Carpathians where Szeklerland meets the old principality of Moldavia, and the Romans, who valued narrow gaps, named their fort there Angustia, simply the narrow place. The little town of Bretcu sits on the site, in Covasna county, in a landscape of low forested mountains and wide hay meadows. The fort controlled the pass on the eastern frontier of the province of Dacia and was manned by auxiliary troops, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman frontiers. What survives is mostly earthworks and traces of the walls, with a few explanatory signs.
Read the complete Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu write-up.
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Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu, about halfway. Next is back through Reci - Cetate.
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Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
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back through Reci - Cetate sits at 190 km, about halfway. Next is back through Baraolt - Véczer.
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Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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back through Baraolt - Véczer comes up about 265 km into the recorded legs. Next is Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană write-up.
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Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană closes the day.
Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană → Baraolt - Véczer is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baraolt - Véczer → Reci - Cetate is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reci - Cetate → Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu → back through Reci - Cetate is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reci - Cetate → back through Baraolt - Véczer is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baraolt - Véczer → Odorheiu Secuiesc - Piatra Coțofană is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.