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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206 km from Roșiorii de Vede to Roșiorii de Vede, about 4 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor, Afrimești - Urluieni, Mârțești - Cetate and back through Afrimești - Urluieni. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor.
Out on the flat Romanian plain east of the Olt river, the village of Crâmpoia sits among endless fields of wheat, maize and sunflowers, and its name has a place in Roman history. A Roman earthen fort near the village stood on the Limes Transalutanus, the frontier line that the Romans built east of the Olt in the early third century, running from the Danube northward toward the Carpathians, a long earthen rampart with forts and watchtowers. The local name Reduta Tătarilor, the Tatars' redoubt, reflects a common habit in Romania of attributing old earthworks to the Tatars or other invaders, long after the Romans were forgotten. The site is part of the UNESCO-listed frontier of Dacia.
Read the complete Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor write-up.
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Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Afrimești - Urluieni.
Flat. That is the first impression of this part of southern Romania, in Argeș county, where the land stretches away towards the Danube in wide fields of maize and sunflowers, broken only by lines of trees and small villages. But across this plain, in the second century AD, the Romans built a frontier: the Limes Transalutanus, a line of earthworks and forts running north to south east of the Olt river, protecting the province of Dacia. At Urluieni, near the village of Afrimești, stood one of its forts.
Read the complete Afrimești - Urluieni write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Afrimești - Urluieni. Next is Mârțești - Cetate.
South of the Carpathians, where the Wallachian plain starts to lift into hills, there is a quiet stretch of the Argeș county, and this point lies near Lunca Corbului, in a landscape of low ridges, orchards and wide fields. The name Cetate simply means fortress or citadel in Romanian, and the label suggests a place where an old defensive site was recorded, whether Roman or older.
Read the complete Mârțești - Cetate write-up.
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Mârțești - Cetate, about halfway. Next is back through Afrimești - Urluieni.
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Read the complete Afrimești - Urluieni write-up.
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back through Afrimești - Urluieni sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor.
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Read the complete Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor write-up.
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back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor comes up about 166 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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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Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui closes the day.
Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui → Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor → Afrimești - Urluieni is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Afrimești - Urluieni → Mârțești - Cetate is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mârțești - Cetate → back through Afrimești - Urluieni is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Afrimești - Urluieni → back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor → Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.