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 105 km round trip from Călimăneşti - roughly 2 h 02 in the saddle. On the way it passes Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate, Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude and back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Olt river cuts through the Carpathians in a gorge a few kilometres from Păuşa, one of the few natural gateways between Transylvania and the southern plains, and the Romans knew its value. After Trajan conquered Dacia in AD 106, the frontier of the new province ran along the Olt, a line known as the Limes Alutanus, and a chain of watchtowers and small forts guarded the river, the roads and the passes against raiders from the lands to the east. Turnul lui Teofil, Teofil's Tower, is one of those lookouts, standing on a height over the valley, in a place chosen so that a signal fire or a trumpet call could be passed on from tower to tower.
Read the complete Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil write-up.
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Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil is where the day begins. Next is Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate.
Here the Olt does something that rivers are not supposed to do: it cuts straight through the Carpathians. Between Sibiu and Râmnicu Vâlcea the river runs through a gorge that the Romans knew well, and Racovița lies in its southern stretch, where steep wooded slopes close in on both sides. The Romans built forts along it as part of the Limes Alutanus, and the name Praetorium on our list is one of those, a small fort that guarded the road along the water. Not far away, Caput Stenarum, near Boița, held the pass at the northern end of the gorge.
Read the complete Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate write-up.
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Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
The Olt does something improbable south of Sibiu. Instead of going around the Carpathians, it cuts straight through them, carving a deep, winding gorge between the Făgăraș and Lotru ranges, and for two thousand years that gorge has been one of the great gateways between Transylvania and Wallachia. At its northern mouth, near the village of Boița, the Romans built a fort they called Caput Stenarum, the head of the narrows, to guard the entrance.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. Next is back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate write-up.
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back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate, late in the day. Next is Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil. That is the ride.
Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil → Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.