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Bargau Pass (Tihuta — Borgo Pass)

Category 2

18 km

Distance

650 m

Elevation Gain

3.6%

Average Gradient

8%

Max Gradient

1201 m

Summit Elevation

The Bargau Pass — known internationally as Borgo Pass and in Romanian as Pasul Tihuta — carries a literary fame that exceeds its gradient difficulty: it is the pass described in Chapter 1 of Bram Stoker's Dracula as the route by which Jonathan Harker crosses the Carpathians into the land beyond the...

Pro Tip

The Borgo Pass is most rewarding as the centrepiece of a Bistrita–Vatra Dornei traverse — the 65km road from Bistrita to Vatra Dornei via the pass summit is one of the finest Transylvanian valley-and-...

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