CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 222 km round trip from Gostavăţu - roughly 5 h 06 in the saddle. On the way it passes Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor, Afrimești - Urluieni, Mârțești - Cetate and back through Afrimești - Urluieni. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Olt river rises in the Carpathians and runs south through Romania to the Danube, and in Roman times it was a boundary. The frontier here, called the Limes Alutanus after the Roman name for the river, ran along the Olt on its journey through the plains of Oltenia, and forts were placed at intervals to watch for raiders. Slăveni stands on that line, and the site on our list, a fort known as La Cetate, is beside a cemetery where the people who served there were buried. The nearby site of Romula, a Roman city that became a provincial capital, was a short distance away.
Read the complete Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis write-up.
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Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis 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 47 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 80 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 136 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 174 km into the recorded legs. Next is Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis closes the day.
Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis → Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 47 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 → Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.