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 314 km round trip from Prejmer - roughly 7 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Codrul secular Șinca, Câmpulung - Jidova 1 and back through Codrul secular Șinca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
In the Burzenland plain east of Brașov, the village of Prejmer, known to its Saxon founders as Tartlau, is home to one of the most remarkable buildings in Romania: a fortified church surrounded by massive circular walls, with hundreds of storage rooms built into them on several levels. The church was begun in the thirteenth century by the Teutonic Knights, who were invited into the region by the Hungarian king to defend the frontier, and later strengthened by the Saxon villagers, who built the walls to protect themselves against Ottoman and Tatar raids. It is part of the UNESCO listing of villages with fortified churches in Transylvania.
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Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is where the day begins. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
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Codrul secular Șinca comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
Câmpulung Muscel lies at the foot of the Carpathians in northern Argeș county, and it claims the title of the first capital of Wallachia. Tradition credits its founding as a princely seat to the legendary Negru Vodă in the thirteenth century, and the old princely court and the Negru Vodă monastery in the town centre recall those early days of the Romanian principality. The town spreads along the valley of the Râul Târgului, with the mountains of Iezer and Piatra Craiului rising steeply to the north.
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about 158 km into the recorded legs you reach Câmpulung - Jidova 1. Next is back through Codrul secular Șinca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Codrul secular Șinca, late in the day. Next is Village of Prejmer-Tartlau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Prejmer-Tartlau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Village of Prejmer-Tartlau. That is the ride.
Village of Prejmer-Tartlau → Codrul secular Șinca is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → back through Codrul secular Șinca is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Codrul secular Șinca → Village of Prejmer-Tartlau is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.