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 206 km round trip from Jibou - roughly 4 h 09 in the saddle. The stops in between: Lozna - Curmăturița 1, Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 and back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Dealul Tărăvăilor is a hill above the village of Var, near Creaca and Jibou, in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, and like many hilltops in this part of the country, it held a Roman watchtower on the frontier of the province of Dacia. The Limes Porolissensis, as the northern frontier is known, was a system of towers, forts and earthworks guarding the roads leading to the great fortress of Porolissum, and the towers were placed on hills with views over the valleys, so that signals could pass quickly along the line.
Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is where the day begins. Next is Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
Lozna is a village in the northern hills of Sălaj county, close to the Someș river, a place of small farms, orchards and wooden houses, and Curmăturița is a saddle in the hills above it, where a Roman watchtower is thought to have stood. The northern frontier of Roman Dacia ran through this area, following ridges and river valleys, and small towers and forts were placed to watch over the approaches. Today there is little to see, but the view from the saddle, over the rolling hills and the Someș valley, is lovely, and it explains why the Romans chose the spot.
Read the complete Lozna - Curmăturița 1 write-up.
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Lozna - Curmăturița 1 comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
Strâmtură means a narrowing, and the name fits. Just outside Gâlgău, a small Sălaj village on the Someș, the valley pinches between wooded slopes, and the Roman frontier made use of exactly such pinch points to control movement along the river. The site listed as Valea Strâmturei belongs to that northern Dacian line, and like most of its neighbours it is earthwork and setting rather than standing masonry. You come for the geography and the sense of a border that ran through these quiet hills nearly two thousand years ago.
Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1.
The northern edge of Roman Dacia was a long line of watchtowers, small forts and earthworks drawn across the hills of what is now northern Transylvania, and Dealul Podului, the bridge hill, near Dumbrăveni, was one of the points along it. Watchtowers here kept an eye on the valleys that led north from the province, toward the lands of the free Dacians and other peoples beyond the frontier, and their remains, now mostly low earthworks in the fields and forest, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1, about halfway. Next is back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei.
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Read the complete Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei write-up.
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back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lozna - Curmăturița 1 write-up.
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back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1 comes up about 177 km into the recorded legs. Next is Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
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Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor closes the day.
Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 1 → back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gâlgău - Valea Strâmturei → back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.