Obcinele Bucovinei văzute din aer, cu poteca șerpuind printre păduri, și sigla Via Transilvanica

The road that unites

Via Transilvanica

A 1,600-kilometre path, from Putna to the Danube. It passes six kilometres from our gate.

All eight lands on the map

The lines are the official tracks, from the association's GPX files, drawn over the OpenStreetMap base.

Harta României cu traseul Via Transilvanica desenat pe cele opt ținuturi, pe fond OpenStreetMap
Bucovina146 km the Highlands217 km Terra Siculorum151 km Terra Saxonum200 km Terra Dacica295 km Terra Banatica241 km Terra Romana143 km Terra Borza Teutonica188 km

In 2018 the Tășuleasa Social association began waymarking a path from Putna to Drobeta-Turnu Severin. Not a ridge route, not a mountain road: a way that links villages, monasteries, citadels and people, public and open to anyone on foot, by bike or on horseback.

The waymark is an orange T in a circle, on a white background. The orange arrow points towards Drobeta, the white one towards Putna. Every kilometre there stands an andesite milestone, carved by art students, with the kilometre number and the logo. No two are alike.

The eight lands

Each land has its own colour on the official map, and each colour means a day of walking. Bucovina is the first, and it is ours.

Bucovina The opening land. It starts in front of Putna Monastery, goes through Sucevița and Vatra Moldoviței, cuts across the Obcine ridges to the Mestecăniș pass and drops into the Dorna country. 144 km · Putna → Poiana Stampei
the Highlands The longest land: over the Tihuța pass, past Bistrița and on to the south. 210 km · Poiana Stampei → Câmpu Cetății
Terra Siculorum The Székely Land: Sovata, Praid and the villages between them. 170 km · Câmpu Cetății → Archita
Terra Saxonum The Saxon land: Sighișoara, Mediaș, Bazna, one fortified church after another. 210 km · Archita → Micăsasa
Terra Dacica Blaj, Alba Iulia, Sarmizegetusa Regia and Ulpia Traiana: two capitals, one Dacian, one Roman. 295 km · Micăsasa → Bucova
Terra Banatica Caransebeș, Reșița, Prigor and the way into the Domogled–Valea Cernei National Park. 239 km · Bucova → Valea Cernei
Terra Romana The last land, all the way to the Danube. 143 km · Valea Cernei → Drobeta-Turnu Severin
Terra Borza Teutonica A segment added later, part of the association's twenty-year plan. 187 km · segment nou

For now we have written at length about Bucovina, the land we know step by step. The rest will follow.

Rutele, pe ținuturi

Before departure

Where to get the booklet and the app

The stamps go into a booklet you buy from the official shop. The app has the stages, the elevation profiles and offline maps that work without signal: on the Obcine ridges, signal drops out often.

Buy the Hiker's Booklet The VT app on the App Store The VT app on Google Play

Where it passes close to us

The trail runs through Sadova and Fundu Moldovei, half an hour from the house, and climbs to the Mestecăniș pass. The nearest milestone is six kilometres from the gate.

If you are still deciding

Start with Bucovina: it is the opening land and we know it step by step.

Seven stages, 144 km, from Putna Monastery to Poiana Negri. We have written each one out: the route, the lodgings with prices and phone numbers, where to get the stamp, where the water is.

The six stages in Bucovina The map, the kilometres, the hours and the ascent for each day.
See the Bucovina section on the map

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