CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 400 km round trip from Bârsana - roughly 8 h 39 in the saddle. The stops in between: Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii, Sita - Vârful Sitii, Guga - Vârful Țâglii and Cliț - Fața Chicerii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Maramureș is a region in the far north of Romania, along the Ukrainian border, where traditions have survived more strongly than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its villages are known for their carved wooden gates, their haystacks and their wooden churches, eight of which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bârsana, in the valley of the Iza river, has one of them, a church built in the eighteenth century, with a tall slender spire and a steep shingled roof.
Read the complete Wooden Churches of Maramureş write-up.
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Wooden Churches of Maramureş is where the day begins. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii.
The Țibleș mountains rise like a dark wall between the Lăpuș country and the valleys of Maramureș, a volcanic range of dense spruce and beech forest topping out at nearly two thousand metres. On their slopes, near the source known as Izvorul Șurii above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, the forest feels almost untouched: springs bubbling out of mossy banks, fallen trunks covered in fungi, and a silence broken only by woodpeckers and the wind. This is bear country, and wolves and lynx roam these woods too. The area lies on the edge of the Maramureș region, famous for its wooden churches, carved gates and deeply traditional village life.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii comes up 39 km in. Next is Sita - Vârful Sitii.
On a hilltop near the village of Spermezeu, in the Someș hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, a small watchtower once stood guard over the northern edge of the Roman Empire. When the emperor Trajan conquered Dacia in the early second century, the Romans built a frontier around their new province, the Dacian limes, a chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks running along the Carpathians and through the hills. Vârful Sitii, the summit of Sita, was one of the observation points, chosen because from here soldiers could watch the valleys to the north and send signals to the forts behind them.
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78 km in you reach Sita - Vârful Sitii. Next is Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
Rugășești, Vad and Poiana Blenchii are the kind of villages most people drive past on the way to somewhere else, and that is precisely the charm of the hills that rise between them. The point marked as Guga, Vârful Țâglii, lies on this rolling country north of the Someș, roughly a dozen kilometres from Dej, in the band of land where Rome drew the northern edge of Dacia. A summit called Țâglii is the sort of place where a watchtower would have looked out across the Someș corridor toward the free tribes beyond, and the archaeological lists record a frontier site here.
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Guga - Vârful Țâglii, about halfway. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
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Cliț - Fața Chicerii sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
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back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii comes up 195 km in. Next is back through Sita - Vârful Sitii.
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234 km in you reach back through Sita - Vârful Sitii. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii, late in the day. Next is Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
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The route ends here after 400 km.
Wooden Churches of Maramureş → Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii → Sita - Vârful Sitii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sita - Vârful Sitii → Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guga - Vârful Țâglii → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii → back through Sita - Vârful Sitii is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sita - Vârful Sitii → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii → Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.