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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313 km from Veţel to Veţel, about 5 h 48 of riding. On the way it passes Boșorod, Village of Câlnic and back through Boșorod. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Mureș flows west across Transylvania towards Hungary, and near the village of Vețel, just west of Deva, the Romans built one of the most important forts in their province of Dacia. Micia guarded the river and the road along the valley, the main route between Transylvania and the Pannonian plain, and around the fort grew a large civil settlement with baths, temples and an amphitheatre. Excavations have revealed much of it, though part of the site lies under a power station built in the twentieth century.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
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Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is where the day begins. Next is Boșorod.
South of the Mures and west of the Retezat massif, the Hateg country is an oddly self-contained basin, ringed by mountains and full of old stories. Bosorod lies on its eastern side, near the town of Pui, in a landscape of meadows, small farms and wooded slopes that rise gradually toward the Orastie Mountains. This is where the Dacians built their strongholds, and the fortress at Banita, which shares the label with Jigoru Mare, is one of six that make up the UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains.
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Boșorod comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Câlnic.
Câlnic, a small village south of Sebeș in Alba county, is home to one of the strangest fortresses among the Saxon sites of Transylvania. Unlike most of its neighbours, it began not as a fortified church but as a noble residence. In the thirteenth century a local count built a stone keep here, surrounded by walls and a moat. Later the villagers bought it, added a chapel and storerooms, and turned it into a peasant refuge, where families could shelter from raids behind the walls. The result, still ringed by water on parts of its perimeter, is part of the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania World Heritage site.
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about 158 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Câlnic. Next is back through Boșorod.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boșorod write-up.
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back through Boșorod, late in the day. Next is Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Vețel - Micia / Grădiște. That is the ride.
Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Boșorod is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boșorod → Village of Câlnic is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Village of Câlnic → back through Boșorod is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Boșorod → Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.