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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285 km from Racoviţa to Racoviţa, about 6 h 37 of riding. The stops in between: Rădăcinești - Cetate, Stolniceni - Buridava Romană, Mârțești - Cetate and back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Rădăcinești - Cetate.
Rădăcinești is a quiet village belonging to Berislăvești, tucked into the hills on the east side of the Olt valley in Vâlcea county. The word cetate on the label means fortress, and like many such names in Romania it points to an old fortified height above the village, the kind of place where earthworks and a few stones are all that is left of people who once watched this valley closely. You come for the setting rather than for ruins you can walk through.
Read the complete Rădăcinești - Cetate write-up.
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Rădăcinești - Cetate comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
South of Râmnicu Vâlcea the Olt river leaves the mountains and broadens across a valley of orchards and villages, and on the terraces above it at Stolniceni lie the remains of Buridava, a Roman military settlement whose name the Romans borrowed from an older Dacian centre nearby. It sat on the Limes Alutanus, the frontier road along the Olt that guarded the eastern edge of Roman Dacia, and soldiers stationed here left inscriptions, bricks stamped with unit marks and the foundations of baths. The site is part of the Dacian frontier listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Stolniceni - Buridava Romană. Next is Mârțești - Cetate.
South of the Carpathians, where the Wallachian plain starts to lift into hills, there is a quiet stretch of the Argeș county, and this point lies near Lunca Corbului, in a landscape of low ridges, orchards and wide fields. The name Cetate simply means fortress or citadel in Romanian, and the label suggests a place where an old defensive site was recorded, whether Roman or older.
Read the complete Mârțești - Cetate write-up.
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Mârțești - Cetate, about halfway. Next is back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
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Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
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back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană sits at 175 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rădăcinești - Cetate.
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Read the complete Rădăcinești - Cetate write-up.
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back through Rădăcinești - Cetate comes up about 257 km into the recorded legs. Next is Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate write-up.
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Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate closes the day.
Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → Rădăcinești - Cetate is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rădăcinești - Cetate → Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Mârțești - Cetate is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mârțești - Cetate → back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → back through Rădăcinești - Cetate is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rădăcinești - Cetate → Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.