CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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185 km from Berislăveşti to Berislăveşti, about 3 h 39 of riding. The stops in between: Cozia - Lotrisor, Titești - Dealul Cazanului, Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil and Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Cozia - Lotrisor.
Brezoi is where two rivers meet and the mountains lean in. The Lotru comes down from the high ridges of the Parang and Lotru ranges, the Olt arrives from the north through its famous gorge, and below the confluence the valley opens just enough for a town of about seven thousand people to settle. Cozia and Lotrisor sit on either side of this junction, and the great pyramid of the Cozia massif stands over the road to the east, a dark wall of beech and spruce that glows copper in October.
Read the complete Cozia - Lotrisor write-up.
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Cozia - Lotrisor comes up 18 km in. Next is Titești - Dealul Cazanului.
The Olt is one of Romania's great rivers, and where it cuts through the Southern Carpathians, between Brezoi and Calimanesti, it does so in a long, narrow gorge that has been a corridor for armies and traders for two thousand years. Titesti and Perisani lie just off this corridor, in the hill country that rises on its western side, where the road leaves the traffic behind and climbs through orchards, hay meadows and beech woods. Dealul Cazanului, the Cauldron Hill, is one of those names that points at the shape of the land more than any particular monument.
Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
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36 km in you reach Titești - Dealul Cazanului. Next is Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil.
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, about halfway. 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 sits at 71 km, about halfway. Next is back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil.
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Read the complete Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil write-up.
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back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil comes up 89 km in. Next is back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului.
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Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
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107 km in you reach back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului. Next is back through Cozia - Lotrisor.
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Read the complete Cozia - Lotrisor write-up.
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back through Cozia - Lotrisor, late in the day. Next is Rădăcinești - Cetate.
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Read the complete Rădăcinești - Cetate write-up.
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The route ends here after 185 km.
Rădăcinești - Cetate → Cozia - Lotrisor is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cozia - Lotrisor → Titești - Dealul Cazanului is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Titești - Dealul Cazanului → Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil → Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Racovița - Praetorium II / Cetate → back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păușa - Turnul lui Teofil → back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Titești - Dealul Cazanului → back through Cozia - Lotrisor is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cozia - Lotrisor → Rădăcinești - Cetate is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.