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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331 km from Dârjiu to Dârjiu, about 6 h 20 of riding. On the way it passes Village of Viscri, Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy, Cincșor - Cetate and back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 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 Village of Viscri.
Viscri is the village people picture when they think of Transylvania's Saxon heritage, and it more or less lives up to it. A single long street of pastel houses, blue, ochre and white, stands gable end to the road, with geese in the ditch, horse carts at dusk and, at the top of the slope, a fortified church wrapped in thick white walls. It is part of the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania listed by UNESCO, and it is one of the best preserved.
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Village of Viscri comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy.
South of Sighișoara the hills fold into long, grassy valleys, and almost every one of them hides a village built around a church that was also a castle. This marker sits among them, close to Șaeș and Apold, two of the old Saxon settlements whose German names, Schaas and Trappold, still turn up on church plaques and in the memories of the few families who stayed.
Read the complete Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy write-up.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Between Sibiu and Făgăraș, the Olt flows through a broad valley, with the long wall of the Făgăraș mountains rising to the south, the highest in Romania, culminating in Moldoveanu at 2,544 metres. On the north bank, near the Saxon village of Cincșor, known in German as Kleinschenk, the Romans built a fort to guard the river crossing and the road along the valley. The site, known locally as Cetate, the fortress, lies in fields near the village, with only faint traces visible.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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Cincșor - Cetate, about halfway. Next is back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy write-up.
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back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Village of Viscri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Viscri write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Village of Viscri comes up about 281 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Dârjiu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Dârjiu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Village of Dârjiu closes the day.
Village of Dârjiu → Village of Viscri is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Viscri → Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy → Cincșor - Cetate is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cincșor - Cetate → back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy → back through Village of Viscri is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Viscri → Village of Dârjiu is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.