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 491 km to Ileanda; allow about 10 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor, Agrij - Coasta Lată, Bologa - Măgura Bologii and Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
35 km on Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Agrij - Coasta Lată.
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 Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
Dealul Tărăvăilor is a hill above the village of Var, near Creaca and Jibou, in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, and like many hilltops in this part of the country, it held a Roman watchtower on the frontier of the province of Dacia. The Limes Porolissensis, as the northern frontier is known, was a system of towers, forts and earthworks guarding the roads leading to the great fortress of Porolissum, and the towers were placed on hills with views over the valleys, so that signals could pass quickly along the line.
Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Agrij - Coasta Lată.
The Meseș mountains are a modest ridge by Carpathian standards, but for the Romans they were a natural wall, and they built their frontier along it. The north-western edge of Dacia ran along these hills, with forts, watchtowers and walls guarding the passes from the plains of the Barbaricum beyond. Agrij - Coasta Lată, near the villages of Stârciu, Buciumi and Meseșenii de Jos, is one of the watchtower sites named in the World Heritage inscription of 2024. Nearby, at Buciumi, are the remains of a fort, and a little further north, at Moigrad, lies Porolissum, the largest Roman site in the region, with a reconstructed gate.
Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Agrij - Coasta Lată. Next is Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
Bologa is a village in the valley of the Crișul Repede, the swift river that flows west from the hills of Cluj county towards Oradea and the Hungarian plain. On the hill above it, known as Măgura Bologii, lie the remains of a castle that once guarded the valley, and in the fields nearby are the traces of a Roman fort, built to protect the north western edge of the province of Dacia. The fort, known in antiquity as Resculum, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024, a line of forts, watchtowers and walls that ran along the edge of the Roman province from the second to the third century.
Read the complete Bologa - Măgura Bologii write-up.
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Bologa - Măgura Bologii, about halfway. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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Roșia Montană Mining Landscape sits at 194 km, about halfway. Next is back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii.
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back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii comes up about 365 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Agrij - Coasta Lată.
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Read the complete Agrij - Coasta Lată write-up.
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about 417 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Agrij - Coasta Lată. Next is back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
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Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor, late in the day. Next is Rogna - La Bontauă.
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Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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The route ends here after 491 km.
Rogna - La Bontauă → Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Agrij - Coasta Lată is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Agrij - Coasta Lată → Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bologa - Măgura Bologii → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bologa - Măgura Bologii → back through Agrij - Coasta Lată is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Agrij - Coasta Lată → back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Rogna - La Bontauă is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.