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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408 km from Petrila to Petrila, about 8 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Târsa - Platoul Târsa, Village of Câlnic and back through Târsa - Platoul Târsa. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
North of the Jiu Valley, the land rises steeply into the Șureanu and Parâng mountains, a wild region of high ridges, deep valleys, spruce forests and alpine meadows. Crac-Găuri lies up in this high country, linked by name to the old routes that crossed the mountains in Roman times, when Dacia was a province and soldiers watched the passes between the Transylvanian basin and the south. Little is visible today, and the remoteness is half the attraction: this is mountain land, where shepherds bring their flocks to high pastures in summer and the forest stretches for miles.
Read the complete Voineasa - Crac-Găuri write-up.
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Voineasa - Crac-Găuri is where the day begins. Next is Târsa - Platoul Târsa.
Târsa sits on a high plateau in the Șureanu mountains, in the same ring of hills that sheltered the Dacian kingdom's heart. The platoul, the plateau, is open grassland and forest edge at roughly a thousand metres or higher, the sort of place where shepherds still bring flocks in summer and the wind carries the sound of bells.
Read the complete Târsa - Platoul Târsa write-up.
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Târsa - Platoul Târsa comes up about 116 km into the recorded legs. Next is Village of Câlnic.
Câlnic, a small village south of Sebeș in Alba county, is home to one of the strangest fortresses among the Saxon sites of Transylvania. Unlike most of its neighbours, it began not as a fortified church but as a noble residence. In the thirteenth century a local count built a stone keep here, surrounded by walls and a moat. Later the villagers bought it, added a chapel and storerooms, and turned it into a peasant refuge, where families could shelter from raids behind the walls. The result, still ringed by water on parts of its perimeter, is part of the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania World Heritage site.
Read the complete Village of Câlnic write-up.
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about 204 km into the recorded legs you reach Village of Câlnic. Next is back through Târsa - Platoul Târsa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Târsa - Platoul Târsa write-up.
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back through Târsa - Platoul Târsa, late in the day. Next is Voineasa - Crac-Găuri.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Voineasa - Crac-Găuri write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Voineasa - Crac-Găuri. That is the ride.
Voineasa - Crac-Găuri → Târsa - Platoul Târsa is 116 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Târsa - Platoul Târsa → Village of Câlnic is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Câlnic → back through Târsa - Platoul Târsa is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Târsa - Platoul Târsa → Voineasa - Crac-Găuri is 127 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.