CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 491 km round trip from Yasinya - roughly 11 h 51 in the saddle. It goes by way of Maramarosh, Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Church of the Holy Archangels and Spermezeu - Lazuri. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Ukraine into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is where the day begins. Next is Maramarosh.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
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Maramarosh comes up 42 km in. Next is Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.
Ieud is a long village strung along a side valley of the Iza river in Maramureș, in Romania's far north, and it has not one but two wooden churches. The one on the hill, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, is one of the eight Wooden Churches of Maramureș listed by UNESCO, and it is one of the oldest, with a tall, slender bell tower and a double roof of wooden shingles that reaches almost to the ground. Inside, the walls are covered with eighteenth-century paintings on wood and cloth, with scenes from the Last Judgement in which the damned are dressed in the clothes of the local enemies of the time. The church is also known for the Ieud Codex, a manuscript found here, one of the oldest texts written in the Romanian language.
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83 km in you reach Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Next is Church of the Holy Archangels.
The wooden church at Rogoz stands in the Lăpuș country, a quieter, lesser-known corner of Maramureș, south of the mountains and away from the main tourist circuits. Built in the seventeenth century and dedicated to the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel, it is unusual in shape: the roof is asymmetric and overhangs deeply on one side, and the eaves are supported by carved wooden brackets shaped like horse heads, a detail that seems to come straight out of folk tradition. Inside, the walls are painted with scenes from the Bible, including a vivid Last Judgement. It is one of the eight churches in the UNESCO listing of the Wooden Churches of Maramureș.
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Church of the Holy Archangels, about halfway. Next is Spermezeu - Lazuri.
Spermezeu is a village in the hilly country of western Bistriţa-Năsăud county, in northern Transylvania, where low ridges covered with orchards, hayfields and beech woods roll between the Someş valley and the Ţibleş mountains. The site called Spermezeu - Lazuri belongs to the series of places along the northern edge of the Roman province of Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listed in Romania in 2024. Here the Romans watched the border with watchtowers and small fortifications on hilltops, and though little remains above ground, the commanding views explain why these spots were chosen.
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Spermezeu - Lazuri sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Church of the Holy Archangels.
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back through Church of the Holy Archangels comes up 208 km in. Next is back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.
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249 km in you reach back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Next is back through Maramarosh.
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back through Maramarosh, late in the day. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
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The route ends here after 491 km.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Maramarosh is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin → Church of the Holy Archangels is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of the Holy Archangels → Spermezeu - Lazuri is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Spermezeu - Lazuri → back through Church of the Holy Archangels is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Holy Archangels → back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of the Nativity of the Virgin → back through Maramarosh is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maramarosh → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.