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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A 110 km round trip from Reci - roughly 2 h 04 in the saddle. It goes by way of Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate and back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Reci lies on the flat floor of the Târgu Secuiesc basin, in Covasna county, where the Olt river meanders between mountains in the heart of the Szekler Land, the Hungarian-speaking region of eastern Transylvania. The site known as Reci - Cetate, the fortress, belongs to the eastern line of the Roman frontier in Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire inscribed in 2024. The Romans guarded the passes through the Carpathians with forts and towers here, though today the site is little more than a raised area in the fields.
Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Reci - 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.
Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
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Village of Prejmer-Tartlau comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate. Next is back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau, late in the day. Next is Reci - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Reci - Cetate. That is the ride.
Reci - Cetate → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Reci - Cetate is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.