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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A 366 km round trip from Titești - roughly 7 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude, Feldioara - Cetățeaua, Codrul secular Șinca and back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 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 47 km this is Transfăgărășan, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Olt is one of Romania's great rivers, and where it cuts through the Southern Carpathians, between Brezoi and Calimanesti, it does so in a long, narrow gorge that has been a corridor for armies and traders for two thousand years. Titesti and Perisani lie just off this corridor, in the hill country that rises on its western side, where the road leaves the traffic behind and climbs through orchards, hay meadows and beech woods. Dealul Cazanului, the Cauldron Hill, is one of those names that points at the shape of the land more than any particular monument.
Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
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Titești - Dealul Cazanului is where the day begins. 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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Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Feldioara - Cetățeaua. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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Codrul secular Șinca, 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 sits at 184 km, about halfway. Next is back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude comes up about 331 km into the recorded legs. Next is Titești - Dealul Cazanului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Titești - Dealul Cazanului closes the day.
Titești - Dealul Cazanului → Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boița - Caput Stenarum / În Rude → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Codrul secular Șinca is 100 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 102 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 → Titești - Dealul Cazanului is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.