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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434 km from Mihăeşti to Mihăeşti, about 10 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari, Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude, Feldioara - Cetățeaua and Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 51 km this is Transfăgărășan, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
The Olt does something improbable south of Sibiu. Instead of going around the Carpathians, it cuts straight through them, carving a deep, winding gorge between the Făgăraș and Lotru ranges, and for two thousand years that gorge has been one of the great gateways between Transylvania and Wallachia. At its northern mouth, near the village of Boița, the Romans built a fort they called Caput Stenarum, the head of the narrows, to guard the entrance.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. Next is Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
The Făgăraș mountains are the highest wall in Romania, and from the Olt valley at Ucea they rise like a grey and white curtain across the southern sky, with Moldoveanu and Negoiu, the country's two highest peaks, hidden somewhere in the ridge. Down in the valley, near the villages of Ucea de Jos and Feldioara, the Romans had a fort at a site called Cetățeaua, guarding the Olt route that formed part of the frontier system of Dacia. The remains, earthworks and fragments in the fields, are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
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Feldioara - Cetățeaua, about halfway. Next is Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy.
South of Sighișoara the hills fold into long, grassy valleys, and almost every one of them hides a village built around a church that was also a castle. This marker sits among them, close to Șaeș and Apold, two of the old Saxon settlements whose German names, Schaas and Trappold, still turn up on church plaques and in the memories of the few families who stayed.
Read the complete Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy write-up.
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Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy sits at 192 km, about halfway. Next is back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
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Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
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back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua comes up about 292 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
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Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
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about 339 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude. 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, late in the day. Next is Stolniceni - Buridava Romană.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stolniceni - Buridava Romană write-up.
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The route ends here after 434 km.
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 → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy → back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua → back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → back through Păușa - Arutela / Poiana Bivolari is 55 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.