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 380 km round trip from Rucăr - roughly 7 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cincșor - Cetate, Village of Dârjiu and back through Cincșor - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Rucăr sits right where the Dâmbovița comes out of the mountains, a long village of wooden gates and tin roofs strung along the valley floor at the southern foot of the Rucăr–Bran corridor. Behind it the land climbs fast: Piatra Craiului's limestone ridge to the north-west, the rounded bulk of Leaota and the Bucegi to the east, and between them the saddle that has carried traffic between Wallachia and Transylvania for as long as anyone has bothered to write things down.
Read the complete Rucăr - Scărișoara write-up.
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Rucăr - Scărișoara is where the day begins. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Between Sibiu and Făgăraș, the Olt flows through a broad valley, with the long wall of the Făgăraș mountains rising to the south, the highest in Romania, culminating in Moldoveanu at 2,544 metres. On the north bank, near the Saxon village of Cincșor, known in German as Kleinschenk, the Romans built a fort to guard the river crossing and the road along the valley. The site, known locally as Cetate, the fortress, lies in fields near the village, with only faint traces visible.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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Cincșor - Cetate comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Dârjiu.
Dârjiu is a Székely village of around eleven hundred people in Harghita county, and at its heart stands one of the fortified churches that UNESCO lists among the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania. Most of those villages are Saxon and Lutheran; Dârjiu is Hungarian-speaking and Unitarian, which makes it something of an odd one out and all the more interesting. A ring of thick walls and towers encloses the church, built so that villagers could shelter from raiders, and the tradition of storing smoked bacon and grain in the fortress towers lasted here long into modern times.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Dârjiu. Next is back through Cincșor - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cincșor - Cetate, late in the day. Next is Rucăr - Scărișoara.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rucăr - Scărișoara write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rucăr - Scărișoara. That is the ride.
Rucăr - Scărișoara → Cincșor - Cetate is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cincșor - Cetate → Village of Dârjiu is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Dârjiu → back through Cincșor - Cetate is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cincșor - Cetate → Rucăr - Scărișoara is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.