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 Sărățeni it runs 378 km to Sărățeni; allow about 7 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii, Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat, Păuleni - Dealul Silaș and Village of Dârjiu. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Salt has shaped this corner of Transylvania for thousands of years. Beneath the hills of the Sovata and Praid area lies a huge salt dome, and in places it reaches the surface, creating salt cliffs, salty springs and lakes. Sărățeni, a village in the Târnava Mică valley, takes its name from the salt, and Casa Sării, the salt house, is the local name for the spot marked here. The Romans valued this salt as much as Dacian gold, and the eastern frontier of their province ran along these hills, with a fort at Sărățeni among the posts that watched the valleys and, no doubt, the salt routes.
Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
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Sărățeni - Casa Sării is where the day begins. Next is Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii.
Salt has shaped this part of Transylvania as much as any river. The hills of the eastern Transylvanian basin sit on enormous salt deposits, and the springs and lakes are often salty, as in Sărățeni, whose name says it all, and where a small salt museum explains the history. Ideciu de Sus, a village in the Mureș valley above Reghin, lies in this country, and the hill of Dealul Custurii nearby carried a Roman watchtower on the eastern frontier of Dacia, included in UNESCO's inscription of 2024. The Romans valued salt highly, and controlling the deposits was one reason they kept a watchful eye on these hills.
Read the complete Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii write-up.
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Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 101 km into the recorded legs you reach Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat. Next is Păuleni - Dealul Silaș.
Corund is a village where almost every house seems to sell pottery. Stalls line the main road through this Székely community in Harghita county, piled high with plates, jugs and bowls in white, blue, green and brown, painted with flowers and birds. Pottery has been made here for centuries, using local clay, and the craft is still alive, though much of what is sold today is made for tourists. Păuleni and the hill called Dealul Silaș lie nearby, an archaeological site among many in this land of rolling hills and forested ridges, with little to see on the ground.
Read the complete Păuleni - Dealul Silaș write-up.
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Păuleni - Dealul Silaș, about halfway. 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.
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Village of Dârjiu sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș.
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back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș comes up about 229 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat.
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about 278 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat. Next is back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii.
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Read the complete Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii write-up.
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back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii, late in the day. Next is Sărățeni - Casa Sării.
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Read the complete Sărățeni - Casa Sării write-up.
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The route ends here after 378 km.
Sărățeni - Casa Sării → Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → Village of Dârjiu is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Dârjiu → back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păuleni - Dealul Silaș → back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Câmpul Cetății - Cetatea Săcădat → back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ideciu de Sus - Dealul Custurii → Sărățeni - Casa Sării is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.