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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From Fărcaşele it runs 266 km to Fărcaşele; allow about 5 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui, Izbășești - Valea Albă and back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Romula was once among the more important towns in Roman Dacia, and the ground at Reșca, in Olt county, is where it stood. The settlement grew near the river Olt on the road between the Danube frontier and the interior, and it rose to the rank of a colony in the later empire; the later name, Romula Malvensis, ties it to the province of Dacia Malvensis that was formed in the third century. Today you see fields, a few low mounds, and the faint outline of an old fortification, with finds from the site kept in nearby museums rather than at the roadside.
Read the complete Reșca - Romula / Cetate write-up.
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Reșca - Romula / Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui.
Southern Romania is as flat as a table, and the Teleorman plain, through which the river Vedea flows towards the Danube, is wheat and sunflower country as far as the eye can see. The Romans pushed their frontier across this plain in the second century, building a long earthen rampart known as the Limes Transalutanus, east of the Olt river, with a ditch and a line of forts and towers behind it. Near Roșiorii de Vede, at Valea Urlui, one of these sites is part of the Roman frontier of Dacia listed by UNESCO. The rampart can still be traced in places as a low bank running through the fields, and on the ground you need a good eye, or a guide, to spot it. From the air it is much clearer.
Read the complete Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui write-up.
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Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Izbășești - Valea Albă.
Between Pitești and Slatina, in the south of Romania, the land falls away from the Carpathian foothills towards the great Danube plain in a series of long, low ridges cut by streams. It is farming country, with fields of maize and sunflowers, orchards, vineyards and small villages strung along the valleys. Izbășești and the valley called Valea Albă, the White Valley, lie in this landscape near the small town of Stolnici, and the site recorded here is one of the many archaeological traces in the area, though there is probably little to see on the ground.
Read the complete Izbășești - Valea Albă write-up.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Izbășești - Valea Albă. Next is back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui write-up.
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back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui, late in the day. Next is Reșca - Romula / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reșca - Romula / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Reșca - Romula / Cetate. That is the ride.
Reșca - Romula / Cetate → Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui → Izbășești - Valea Albă is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Izbășești - Valea Albă → back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui → Reșca - Romula / Cetate is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.