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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From Saschiz it runs 432 km to Saschiz; allow about 8 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Inlăceni - Cetate, Băile Homorod - Cekend, Baraolt - Véczer and Reci - 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 Inlăceni - Cetate.
Székely Land, in the eastern part of Transylvania, is the home of a Hungarian-speaking community whose ancestors were placed here in the Middle Ages to guard the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the same job had been done a thousand years earlier by the Romans. Near the village of Inlăceni, in the hills of Harghita county, stand the remains of a Roman fort, one of the eastern bastions of Dacia, facing the Carpathians and the passes beyond. The stone walls, gates and corner towers can still be traced in a meadow on a hilltop, and the setting, with forests all around and the mountains on the horizon, is one of the most beautiful of all the sites on the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Inlăceni - Cetate write-up.
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Inlăceni - Cetate comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Băile Homorod - Cekend. 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.
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Baraolt - Véczer, about halfway. 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 sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Baraolt - Véczer.
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back through Baraolt - Véczer comes up about 277 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Băile Homorod - Cekend.
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Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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about 339 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Băile Homorod - Cekend. Next is back through Inlăceni - Cetate.
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Read the complete Inlăceni - Cetate write-up.
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back through Inlăceni - Cetate, late in the day. Next is Village of Saschiz-Keisd.
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Read the complete Village of Saschiz-Keisd write-up.
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The route ends here after 432 km.
Village of Saschiz-Keisd → Inlăceni - Cetate is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Inlăceni - Cetate → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 43 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 → 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 → back through Inlăceni - Cetate is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Inlăceni - Cetate → Village of Saschiz-Keisd is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.