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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208 km from Zalău to Zalău, about 4 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii, Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha, Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii and back through Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Porolissum is where the day begins. Next is Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
Surduc is a village in the Someș valley in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, where the river cuts a narrow path through hills on its way toward Baia Mare. Above the village, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the Hrăii stream, there are traces of a Roman watchtower, part of the frontier of the province of Dacia. The nearby villages of Tihău and Băbeni, and the town of Jibou, are all close by.
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Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha.
Ileanda is a village in the north of Sălaj county, where the river Someș swings north-west out of the Transylvanian basin through a valley flanked by wooded hills. On the hill called Ciuha, above the village, the Romans had a post on the northern edge of their province of Dacia, one of the watchtowers and forts that guarded the frontier from the second to the third century. The site belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. Do not expect a ruin with walls to wander through: what survives is mostly earthwork and traces in the ground, and the joy lies in the climb and the view rather than the remains.
Read the complete Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha write-up.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha. Next is Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii.
North of Dej, the Someș river winds through a land of soft hills, orchards and scattered villages, and on the ridges above it the Romans once kept watch over the northern frontier of their province of Dacia. Chiuiești, a commune of small villages spread across the hills, is one of the places where archaeologists have identified the remains of watchtowers on high points along the frontier, including one on the hill known as Dealul Crucii, the Hill of the Cross. Little survives above ground beyond low mounds and traces in the grass, but the sites are included in the World Heritage inscription of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia, added in 2024.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii write-up.
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Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii, about halfway. Next is back through Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha.
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Read the complete Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha write-up.
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back through Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
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Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
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back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii comes up about 183 km into the recorded legs. Next is Porolissum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Porolissum write-up.
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Porolissum closes the day.
Porolissum → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha → Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii → back through Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha → back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → Porolissum is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.