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 Ileanda it runs 289 km to Ileanda; allow about 5 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Trezenea - Gura Teghișului, Gilău - La Castel and back through Trezenea - Gura Teghișului. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Rogna is a scatter of farms in the hills of northern Sălaj, close to the Someș valley and the border with Maramureș, and La Bontauă is the name the locals give to a piece of high ground where a Roman frontier site has been recorded. The northern edge of Roman Dacia ran through these hills, and the Romans placed watchtowers and small forts on high points to keep an eye on the river valleys and the free Dacians to the north. Today there is little to see apart from the shape of the land, but the view over the rolling hills makes it easy to imagine a sentry looking out across the valley.
Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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Rogna - La Bontauă is where the day begins. Next is Trezenea - Gura Teghișului.
The Meseș mountains are a low, forested ridge in northwestern Transylvania, and for the Romans they formed a natural wall at the edge of the province of Dacia. Along the ridge, they built a chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks, and the big fort of Porolissum, near Zalău, was the key to it all, guarding a pass through the mountains used by traders and travellers. In 2024, much of this frontier was listed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia, and the site between Treznea and Gura Teghișului is one of its components. On the ground, there is little more than a line of ditches, banks and the foundations of towers, hidden in the forest.
Read the complete Trezenea - Gura Teghișului write-up.
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Trezenea - Gura Teghișului comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gilău - La Castel.
Gilău is a market village on the Someșul Mic, the first real settlement west of Cluj-Napoca on the road toward the Apuseni mountains, and the place name La Castel says it plainly: there was a fortification here, and there still is one, layered through the centuries. Under the later castle grounds, archaeologists found a Roman auxiliary fort guarding the valley route into Dacia from the west, and the medieval and early modern castle that followed sits on the same strategic ground. Rome, Hungarian nobles and later owners all made the same calculation about this spot.
Read the complete Gilău - La Castel write-up.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Gilău - La Castel. Next is back through Trezenea - Gura Teghișului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Trezenea - Gura Teghișului write-up.
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back through Trezenea - Gura Teghișului, late in the day. Next is Rogna - La Bontauă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rogna - La Bontauă. That is the ride.
Rogna - La Bontauă → Trezenea - Gura Teghișului is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Trezenea - Gura Teghișului → Gilău - La Castel is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilău - La Castel → back through Trezenea - Gura Teghișului is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Trezenea - Gura Teghișului → Rogna - La Bontauă is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.