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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425 km from Dârjiu to Dârjiu, about 8 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Băile Homorod - Cekend, Baraolt - Véczer, Reci - Cetate and Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Dârjiu is a Székely village of around eleven hundred people in Harghita county, and at its heart stands one of the fortified churches that UNESCO lists among the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania. Most of those villages are Saxon and Lutheran; Dârjiu is Hungarian-speaking and Unitarian, which makes it something of an odd one out and all the more interesting. A ring of thick walls and towers encloses the church, built so that villagers could shelter from raiders, and the tradition of storing smoked bacon and grain in the fortress towers lasted here long into modern times.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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Village of Dârjiu is where the day begins. Next is Băile Homorod - Cekend.
Deep in the forests of Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land, the small spa of Băile Homorod sits in a valley among spruce and beech, with wooden villas, mineral springs and the smell of resin in the air. The springs here produce borvíz, naturally carbonated mineral water, which the Székely people drink as their everyday water and believe has healing powers. Cekend is the name attached to a nearby hill site on the eastern line of Roman Dacia's frontier, one of hundreds of components listed together as a World Heritage Site in 2024.
Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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Băile Homorod - Cekend comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Baraolt - Véczer.
In Baraolt you are more likely to hear Hungarian than Romanian. This small town lies in Covasna County, in the heart of the Székely Land, where the Székely Hungarian community has lived for centuries, with its own traditions, carved wooden gates, Calvinist and Catholic churches and a fierce sense of identity. Véczer, near Baraolt, is one of the points on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, where small forts and watchtowers watched over the passes through the eastern Carpathians, and it belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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about 105 km into the recorded legs you reach Baraolt - Véczer. Next is Reci - Cetate.
Reci lies on the flat floor of the Târgu Secuiesc basin, in Covasna county, where the Olt river meanders between mountains in the heart of the Szekler Land, the Hungarian-speaking region of eastern Transylvania. The site known as Reci - Cetate, the fortress, belongs to the eastern line of the Roman frontier in Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire inscribed in 2024. The Romans guarded the passes through the Carpathians with forts and towers here, though today the site is little more than a raised area in the fields.
Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
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Reci - Cetate, about halfway. Next is Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu.
There is a narrow gap in the Carpathians where Szeklerland meets the old principality of Moldavia, and the Romans, who valued narrow gaps, named their fort there Angustia, simply the narrow place. The little town of Bretcu sits on the site, in Covasna county, in a landscape of low forested mountains and wide hay meadows. The fort controlled the pass on the eastern frontier of the province of Dacia and was manned by auxiliary troops, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman frontiers. What survives is mostly earthworks and traces of the walls, with a few explanatory signs.
Read the complete Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu write-up.
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Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Reci - Cetate.
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Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
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back through Reci - Cetate comes up about 257 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Baraolt - Véczer.
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Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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about 319 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Baraolt - Véczer. Next is back through Băile Homorod - Cekend.
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Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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back through Băile Homorod - Cekend, late in the day. Next is Village of Dârjiu.
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Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
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The route ends here after 425 km.
Village of Dârjiu → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Băile Homorod - Cekend → Baraolt - Véczer is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baraolt - Véczer → Reci - Cetate is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reci - Cetate → Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu → back through Reci - Cetate is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reci - Cetate → back through Baraolt - Véczer is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baraolt - Véczer → back through Băile Homorod - Cekend is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Băile Homorod - Cekend → Village of Dârjiu is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.