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 Mihăeşti it runs 356 km to Mihăeşti; allow about 9 h 53 of riding. The stops in between: Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari, Monastery of Horezu, Cozia - Lotrisor and back through Monastery of Horezu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
South of Râmnicu Vâlcea the Olt river leaves the mountains and broadens across a valley of orchards and villages, and on the terraces above it at Stolniceni lie the remains of Buridava, a Roman military settlement whose name the Romans borrowed from an older Dacian centre nearby. It sat on the Limes Alutanus, the frontier road along the Olt that guarded the eastern edge of Roman Dacia, and soldiers stationed here left inscriptions, bricks stamped with unit marks and the foundations of baths. The site is part of the Dacian frontier listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
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Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is where the day begins. Next is Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari.
The Olt is the river that cuts through the Carpathians, and wherever a river does that, an army will want to sit beside it. At Păușa, near Călimănești, the Romans built a small fort called Arutela to guard the road through the Olt valley, part of the defensive line that protected their province of Dacia after Trajan's conquest at the start of the second century. The fort's remains lie by the river, partly lost to floods and later works, and are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari write-up.
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Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monastery of Horezu.
Constantin Brâncoveanu, prince of Wallachia at the end of the seventeenth century, was a wealthy, cultured ruler who built churches, palaces and monasteries across his principality, and Horezu was his masterpiece. Founded in 1690, the monastery sits in a quiet valley in the foothills of the Căpățânii mountains, surrounded by walls, with a church at the centre of a courtyard lined with arcaded cells. It is the finest example of the Brâncovenesc style, a blend of Byzantine, Renaissance and Baroque, with carved stone, painted interiors and elegant porches, and it was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1993. In 1714, Brâncoveanu and his four sons were executed by the Ottomans in Istanbul; the Romanian Orthodox Church later canonised them as martyrs.
Read the complete Monastery of Horezu write-up.
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about 106 km into the recorded legs you reach Monastery of Horezu. Next is Cozia - Lotrisor.
Brezoi is where two rivers meet and the mountains lean in. The Lotru comes down from the high ridges of the Parang and Lotru ranges, the Olt arrives from the north through its famous gorge, and below the confluence the valley opens just enough for a town of about seven thousand people to settle. Cozia and Lotrisor sit on either side of this junction, and the great pyramid of the Cozia massif stands over the road to the east, a dark wall of beech and spruce that glows copper in October.
Read the complete Cozia - Lotrisor write-up.
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Cozia - Lotrisor, about halfway. Next is back through Monastery of Horezu.
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Read the complete Monastery of Horezu write-up.
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back through Monastery of Horezu sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari.
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Read the complete Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari write-up.
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back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari comes up about 315 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Stolniceni - Buridava Romană closes the day.
Stolniceni - Buridava Romană → Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari → Monastery of Horezu is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monastery of Horezu → Cozia - Lotrisor is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cozia - Lotrisor → back through Monastery of Horezu is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monastery of Horezu → back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari → Stolniceni - Buridava Romană is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.