CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Negrilești it runs 342 km to Negrilești; allow about 8 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Salva - Modruț, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, Church of the Holy Parasceve and back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Transylvania's northern hills look like a landscape painted by someone who liked orchards and haystacks. Purcărete lies in the folds of the country between the Someș valleys and the Bistrița river, a region that was colonised in the Middle Ages by German-speaking Saxons, who built fortified churches and walled towns, and by Hungarians and Romanians who farmed the slopes. The Saxon town of Bistrița, not far away, still has a tall Lutheran church with a spire that can be seen from miles, and a handsome old centre of arcaded houses.
Read the complete Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 write-up.
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Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 is where the day begins. Next is Salva - Modruț.
Salva lies where the Someșul Mare valley opens into a broad bowl in Bistrița-Năsăud county, with the Rodna mountains standing to the northeast and a ring of low wooded hills closer in. The town is a railway junction, a lorry stop on the road through the valley, and the kind of place that looks ordinary until you ask about its past.
Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
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Salva - Modruț comes up 29 km in. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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57 km in you reach Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. Next is Church of the Holy Parasceve.
Maramureș is one of the few corners of Europe where wood is still the language of the sacred, and the church of Saint Parascheva at Poienile Izei is a good place to learn it. It stands on a small rise above the Izei valley, a dark timber church with a steep, double-tiered shingled roof and a slender spire, built in the early seventeenth century and moved to its present spot later. Inside, the walls and ceiling carry painted scenes from the eighteenth century, and the one that always gets quoted is a vivid Last Judgment in which sinners get remarkably specific punishments.
Read the complete Church of the Holy Parasceve write-up.
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Church of the Holy Parasceve, about halfway. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
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Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci sits at 115 km, about halfway. Next is back through Salva - Modruț.
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Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
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back through Salva - Modruț comes up 143 km in. Next is Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 write-up.
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Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 closes the day.
Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 → Salva - Modruț is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Salva - Modruț → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Church of the Holy Parasceve is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Parasceve → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Salva - Modruț is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Salva - Modruț → Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.