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 Copşa Mică it runs 449 km to Copşa Mică; allow about 8 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy, Village of Viscri, Sânpaul - Cetate and Olteni - Castelul Mikó. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Valea Viilor means Valley of the Vineyards, and the name is honest: the slopes around the village were planted with vines long before anyone thought of mapping them. The Saxons called it Wurmloch, and its fortified church, a tall Gothic hall with a defensive storey built over the choir and a ring wall around it, is one of the seven on the World Heritage list.
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Village of Valea Viilor is where the day begins. 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.
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Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Viscri. 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.
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Sânpaul - Cetate, about halfway. Next is Olteni - Castelul Mikó.
The Olt here is a young river, winding through meadows in the basin north of Sfântu Gheorghe before it bends west across Transylvania. At Olteni, a village on its banks, the Mikó family, one of the noble houses of the Szekler Land, had a manor house set in a park, and the place is linked to one of the Roman sites of the eastern Dacian frontier listed in 2024. The Romans had a fort in this area, guarding the routes through the mountains, and like most sites in the region, little of it can be seen today.
Read the complete Olteni - Castelul Mikó write-up.
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Olteni - Castelul Mikó sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sânpaul - Cetate.
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Read the complete Sânpaul - Cetate write-up.
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back through Sânpaul - Cetate comes up about 293 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Village of Viscri.
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Read the complete Village of Viscri write-up.
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about 334 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Village of Viscri. 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, late in the day. Next is Village of Valea Viilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
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The route ends here after 449 km.
Village of Valea Viilor → Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy → Village of Viscri is 54 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 → Olteni - Castelul Mikó is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olteni - Castelul Mikó → back through Sânpaul - Cetate is 65 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 → back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villages with Fortified Churches in Transy → Village of Valea Viilor is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.