Why this ride
A 280 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 5 h 43 in the saddle. It goes by way of Lunca - La Bolovani, Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat and back through Lunca - La Bolovani.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Salva - Modruț and Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 280 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 43
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Salva - Modruț
Salva lies where the Someșul Mare valley opens into a broad bowl in Bistrița-Năsăud county, with the Rodna mountains standing to the northeast and a ring of low wooded hills closer in. The town is a railway junction, a lorry stop on the road through the valley, and the kind of place that looks ordinary until you ask about its past.
Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Salva - Modruț is where the day begins. Next is Lunca - La Bolovani.
2. Lunca - La Bolovani
La Bolovani means at the boulders, which tells you most of what a local would have said about this spot on the hills near the village of Lunca, between Monor and Șieuț on the eastern edge of the Transylvanian basin. Archaeologists know it as one of the sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia, a small watch post on a ridge commanding views east towards the Călimani and Gurghiu mountains, beyond which lay lands Rome never controlled. In 2024 it joined the World Heritage listing of the Dacian limes, though in the field you will find a quiet hill, sheep and very few signs.
Read the complete Lunca - La Bolovani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Lunca - La Bolovani comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
3. Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat
In the eastern part of Mureș county, near the boundary with Harghita, the hills rise towards the volcanic mountains of the Eastern Carpathians, and the villages are mostly Hungarian-speaking. This is part of the Székely Land, home to the Székelys, a Hungarian-speaking people who settled here in the Middle Ages to guard the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary, and who maintain a strong identity, with their own runic script, carved wooden gates and fortified churches. Câmpul Cetății, the field of the fortress, is a village near Eremitu, and the site of Cetatea Săcădat is one of the elements of the Roman frontier listed by UNESCO, on the eastern edge of the province of Dacia, where the Romans built a line of forts and towers along the foothills of the mountains.
Read the complete Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat. Next is back through Lunca - La Bolovani.
4. back through Lunca - La Bolovani
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lunca - La Bolovani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Lunca - La Bolovani, late in the day. Next is Salva - Modruț.
5. Salva - Modruț
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Salva - Modruț. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Salva - Modruț to Lunca - La Bolovani
Salva - Modruț → Lunca - La Bolovani is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lunca - La Bolovani to Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat
Lunca - La Bolovani → Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat to back through Lunca - La Bolovani
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → back through Lunca - La Bolovani is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lunca - La Bolovani to Salva - Modruț
back through Lunca - La Bolovani → Salva - Modruț is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.