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 299 km round trip from Voinești - roughly 7 h 09 in the saddle. On the way it passes Rucăr - Scărișoara, Câmpulung - Jidova 1, Moieciu - Drumul Carului and Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Rucăr-Bran corridor is one of the oldest passages through the Carpathians, and at its southern end, in the hills around Câmpulung Muscel, the Romans built a frontier line to guard it. The Limes Transalutanus, the frontier east of the Olt, ran north through this area, and small forts and watchtowers like the one at Voinești-Măilătoaia watched the valleys and the approaches to the pass. The sites are now low earthworks in fields and forest edges, and they belong to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
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Voinești - Măilătoaia is where the day begins. Next is Rucăr - Scărișoara.
Rucăr sits right where the Dâmbovița comes out of the mountains, a long village of wooden gates and tin roofs strung along the valley floor at the southern foot of the Rucăr–Bran corridor. Behind it the land climbs fast: Piatra Craiului's limestone ridge to the north-west, the rounded bulk of Leaota and the Bucegi to the east, and between them the saddle that has carried traffic between Wallachia and Transylvania for as long as anyone has bothered to write things down.
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Rucăr - Scărișoara comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
Câmpulung Muscel lies at the foot of the Carpathians in northern Argeș county, and it claims the title of the first capital of Wallachia. Tradition credits its founding as a princely seat to the legendary Negru Vodă in the thirteenth century, and the old princely court and the Negru Vodă monastery in the town centre recall those early days of the Romanian principality. The town spreads along the valley of the Râul Târgului, with the mountains of Iezer and Piatra Craiului rising steeply to the north.
Read the complete Câmpulung - Jidova 1 write-up.
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about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Câmpulung - Jidova 1. Next is Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
Between Bran and Rucăr, the road climbs over the saddle that separates the Bucegi mountains from Piatra Craiului, through a landscape of high meadows, hay barns, scattered farms and limestone peaks. The name Drumul Carului, the cart road, recalls the old route across this pass, which has linked Transylvania and Wallachia for centuries, and archaeologists have recorded a Roman-era site here, part of the network of frontier and road posts in Dacia. Fundata, at the top, is one of the highest villages in Romania, at around 1,350 metres, and the scattered houses of Moieciu, Peștera and Șirnea spread across the hills around it.
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Moieciu - Drumul Carului, about halfway. Next is Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate.
The Roman fort of Cumidava stood on a terrace near the village of Vulcan, just west of Râșnov, at the southern end of the Bârsa Land, guarding the route from Transylvania through the mountains to Wallachia. It was one of the forts on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, and its name, recorded on an inscription, is believed to be Dacian in origin. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, added to the UNESCO list in 2024. Little stands above ground, but the setting, with the mountains rising to the south, makes it clear why the Romans chose this spot.
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Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului.
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Read the complete Moieciu - Drumul Carului write-up.
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back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
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about 250 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1. Next is back through Rucăr - Scărișoara.
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back through Rucăr - Scărișoara, late in the day. Next is Voinești - Măilătoaia.
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Read the complete Voinești - Măilătoaia write-up.
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The route ends here after 299 km.
Voinești - Măilătoaia → Rucăr - Scărișoara is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rucăr - Scărișoara → Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moieciu - Drumul Carului → Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Râșnov - Cumidava / La Cetate → back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moieciu - Drumul Carului → back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → back through Rucăr - Scărișoara is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rucăr - Scărișoara → Voinești - Măilătoaia is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.