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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393 km from Jibou to Jibou, about 8 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Poieni - Horhiș, Roșia Montană Mining Landscape and back through Poieni - Horhiș. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Poieni - Horhiș.
The Crisul Repede is the river that cuts through the Apuseni Mountains in north-western Romania, and it carries the main road and the railway between Cluj and Oradea along its valley. Poieni and Horhis lie on the hills just above this corridor, in the zone where the great bulk of the Apuseni gives way to lower, rolling farmland. Ciucea, down in the valley, is the nearest village of any size, and is known for a small castle that once belonged to Octavian Goga, a Romanian poet who briefly served as prime minister in the 1930s. He is buried there, and the house is now a museum.
Read the complete Poieni - Horhiș write-up.
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Poieni - Horhiș comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. Next is back through Poieni - Horhiș.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Poieni - Horhiș write-up.
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back through Poieni - Horhiș, late in the day. Next is Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor. That is the ride.
Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor → Poieni - Horhiș is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Poieni - Horhiș → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → back through Poieni - Horhiș is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Poieni - Horhiș → Var - Dealul Tărăvăilor is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.