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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195 km from Bodoc to Bodoc, about 3 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății, Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate and back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Olt here is a young river, winding through meadows in the basin north of Sfântu Gheorghe before it bends west across Transylvania. At Olteni, a village on its banks, the Mikó family, one of the noble houses of the Szekler Land, had a manor house set in a park, and the place is linked to one of the Roman sites of the eastern Dacian frontier listed in 2024. The Romans had a fort in this area, guarding the routes through the mountains, and like most sites in the region, little of it can be seen today.
Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
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Olteni - Castelul Mikó is where the day begins. Next is Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
Southeast of Sfântu Gheorghe, in Covasna county, the plain of the Râul Negru, the Black River, opens out between the mountains, a broad basin of fields, meadows and villages enclosed by the forested ridges of the Eastern Carpathians. Boroșneu Mare is one of the larger villages in this basin, a Székely community with a church and a cluster of farms, and the hill above it, Dealul Cetății, the Fortress Hill, takes its name from old earthworks or a fortification recorded there. It is one of many such sites in the area, more a landmark than a monument.
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Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Prejmer-Tartlau. Next is Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
The Roman fort of Cumidava stood on a terrace near the village of Vulcan, just west of Râșnov, at the southern end of the Bârsa Land, guarding the route from Transylvania through the mountains to Wallachia. It was one of the forts on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, and its name, recorded on an inscription, is believed to be Dacian in origin. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, added to the UNESCO list in 2024. Little stands above ground, but the setting, with the mountains rising to the south, makes it clear why the Romans chose this spot.
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Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate, about halfway. Next is back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
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Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
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back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății.
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back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății comes up about 168 km into the recorded legs. Next is Olteni - Castelul Mikó.
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Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
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Olteni - Castelul Mikó closes the day.
Olteni - Castelul Mikó → Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boroșneu Mare - Pe Dealul Cetății → Olteni - Castelul Mikó is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.