CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 353 km round trip from Kvasy - roughly 7 h 31 in the saddle. It goes by way of Church of the Holy Paraskeva, Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha and back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Ukraine into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 71 km this is Romania Maramures Wooden Churches Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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Svydovets is where the day begins. Next is Church of the Holy Paraskeva.
In 1780 a painter named Radu Munteanu covered the inside of the wooden church at Desești with scenes that still shock and delight: a Last Judgment in which sinners are marched off to a hell full of grinning devils, alongside saints, prophets and lively village figures. The church, dedicated to the Holy Paraskeva and built in 1770 from oak logs, rises above the village with a tall, slender tower and a steep double roof of shingles. It is one of the eight wooden churches of Maramureș inscribed by UNESCO in 1999, and its paintings are among the best preserved of them all.
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Church of the Holy Paraskeva comes up 71 km in. Next is Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha.
Ileanda is a village in the north of Sălaj county, where the river Someș swings north-west out of the Transylvanian basin through a valley flanked by wooded hills. On the hill called Ciuha, above the village, the Romans had a post on the northern edge of their province of Dacia, one of the watchtowers and forts that guarded the frontier from the second to the third century. The site belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. Do not expect a ruin with walls to wander through: what survives is mostly earthwork and traces in the ground, and the joy lies in the climb and the view rather than the remains.
Read the complete Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha write-up.
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142 km in you reach Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha. Next is back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of the Holy Paraskeva write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva, late in the day. Next is Svydovets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Svydovets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Svydovets. That is the ride.
Svydovets → Church of the Holy Paraskeva is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of the Holy Paraskeva → Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha → back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Church of the Holy Paraskeva → Svydovets is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.