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 347 km round trip from Copşa Mică - roughly 6 h 37 in the saddle. It goes by way of Feldioara - Cetățeaua, Titești - Dealul Cazanului and back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 82 km this is Transfăgărășan, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
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.
Read the complete Village of Valea Viilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Village of Valea Viilor is where the day begins. Next is Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
The Făgăraș mountains are the highest wall in Romania, and from the Olt valley at Ucea they rise like a grey and white curtain across the southern sky, with Moldoveanu and Negoiu, the country's two highest peaks, hidden somewhere in the ridge. Down in the valley, near the villages of Ucea de Jos and Feldioara, the Romans had a fort at a site called Cetățeaua, guarding the Olt route that formed part of the frontier system of Dacia. The remains, earthworks and fragments in the fields, are included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Titești - Dealul Cazanului.
The Olt is one of Romania's great rivers, and where it cuts through the Southern Carpathians, between Brezoi and Calimanesti, it does so in a long, narrow gorge that has been a corridor for armies and traders for two thousand years. Titesti and Perisani lie just off this corridor, in the hill country that rises on its western side, where the road leaves the traffic behind and climbs through orchards, hay meadows and beech woods. Dealul Cazanului, the Cauldron Hill, is one of those names that points at the shape of the land more than any particular monument.
Read the complete Titești - Dealul Cazanului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 173 km into the recorded legs you reach Titești - Dealul Cazanului. Next is back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Feldioara - Cetățeaua write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Village of Valea Viilor. That is the ride.
Village of Valea Viilor → Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Titești - Dealul Cazanului is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Titești - Dealul Cazanului → back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Feldioara - Cetățeaua → Village of Valea Viilor is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.