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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215 km from Saschiz to Saschiz, about 4 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Village of Viscri, Sânpaul - Cetate, Băile Homorod - Cekend and back through Sânpaul - Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The clock tower of the fortified church in Saschiz looks oddly familiar if you have just come from Sighișoara, and that is no accident: it was built in the image of the famous clock tower of the nearby town, a statement of local pride by the Saxon villagers who built it in the late fifteenth century. The church belongs to the World Heritage inscription for villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, a group of German-speaking Saxon communities that fortified their churches against Ottoman and Tatar raids. Above the village, on a wooded hill, are the ruins of a peasant citadel, where the inhabitants took refuge during attacks.
Read the complete Village of Saschiz-Keisd write-up.
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Village of Saschiz-Keisd 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.
Read the complete Village of Viscri write-up.
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Village of Viscri comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sânpaul - Cetate.
Sânpaul, Homoródszentpál to its Hungarian-speaking inhabitants, is a village in the Homorod valley in Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land of eastern Transylvania. Near the village, the Romans built a fort on the eastern edge of their province of Dacia, guarding routes through the hills from the Carpathians. The remains, now earthworks in the fields, are part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, listed by UNESCO in 2024. Nearby Ocland has a medieval fortification on a hill known as Hășmaș castle.
Read the complete Sânpaul - Cetate write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Sânpaul - Cetate. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Sânpaul - Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sânpaul - Cetate write-up.
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back through Sânpaul - Cetate sits at 115 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 192 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Saschiz-Keisd.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Saschiz-Keisd write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Village of Saschiz-Keisd closes the day.
Village of Saschiz-Keisd → Village of Viscri is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Viscri → Sânpaul - Cetate is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sânpaul - Cetate → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Băile Homorod - Cekend → back through Sânpaul - Cetate is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sânpaul - Cetate → back through Village of Viscri is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Village of Viscri → Village of Saschiz-Keisd is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.