CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 323 km round trip from Vulcan - roughly 6 h 00 in the saddle. On the way it passes Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, Olteni - Castelul Mikó, Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului and Hoghiz - La Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Roman fort of Cumidava stood on a terrace near the village of Vulcan, just west of Râșnov, at the southern end of the Bârsa Land, guarding the route from Transylvania through the mountains to Wallachia. It was one of the forts on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, and its name, recorded on an inscription, is believed to be Dacian in origin. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, added to the UNESCO list in 2024. Little stands above ground, but the setting, with the mountains rising to the south, makes it clear why the Romans chose this spot.
Read the complete Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate write-up.
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Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
In the Burzenland plain east of Brașov, the village of Prejmer, known to its Saxon founders as Tartlau, is home to one of the most remarkable buildings in Romania: a fortified church surrounded by massive circular walls, with hundreds of storage rooms built into them on several levels. The church was begun in the thirteenth century by the Teutonic Knights, who were invited into the region by the Hungarian king to defend the frontier, and later strengthened by the Saxon villagers, who built the walls to protect themselves against Ottoman and Tatar raids. It is part of the UNESCO listing of villages with fortified churches in Transylvania.
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Village of Prejmer-Tartlau comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Olteni - Castelul Mikó.
The Olt here is a young river, winding through meadows in the basin north of Sfântu Gheorghe before it bends west across Transylvania. At Olteni, a village on its banks, the Mikó family, one of the noble houses of the Szekler Land, had a manor house set in a park, and the place is linked to one of the Roman sites of the eastern Dacian frontier listed in 2024. The Romans had a fort in this area, guarding the routes through the mountains, and like most sites in the region, little of it can be seen today.
Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Olteni - Castelul Mikó. Next is Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului.
The Homoród valley runs south through the Székely land of Harghita county, a gentle, green valley between wooded hills, with villages of whitewashed churches and carved gates. Ocland is one of them, a small village with a fortified church, and on a hill above it stood a medieval castle, Cetatea Hășmașului, of which only traces remain. The rides that pass here connect it with the fortified churches of Transylvania, the extraordinary defensive churches built by the Saxon and Székely communities in the Middle Ages to protect themselves from Tatar and Ottoman raids.
Read the complete Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului write-up.
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Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului, about halfway. Next is Hoghiz - La Cetate.
Where the Olt river bends around the Perșani mountains, between the Saxon villages of southern Transylvania and the Székely country to the east, the land rises into wooded hills, and near the village of Hoghiz, on a terrace above the river, lies an archaeological site known simply as La Cetate, the fortress. The Romans guarded this stretch of the Olt with forts, part of the defensive system of their province of Dacia, and the name hints at an old fortified place that once watched over the valley.
Read the complete Hoghiz - La Cetate write-up.
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Hoghiz - La Cetate sits at 158 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului.
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back through Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului comes up about 203 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó.
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about 254 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó. Next is back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
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back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, late in the day. Next is Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
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The route ends here after 323 km.
Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Olteni - Castelul Mikó is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olteni - Castelul Mikó → Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului → Hoghiz - La Cetate is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hoghiz - La Cetate → back through Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ocland - Cetatea Hășmașului → back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olteni - Castelul Mikó → back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.