CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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450 km from Belgrade to Belgrade, about 8 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Pojejena - Șitarnița, Vărădia - Chilii, Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă and Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină. It crosses from Serbia into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Belgrade sits where the Sava runs into the Danube, a strategic spot that has been fought over for more than two thousand years, by Celts, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans, Habsburgs and others, and the city has been destroyed and rebuilt dozens of times. The fortress of Kalemegdan, on the ridge above the meeting of the rivers, is where that long story is easiest to see, with its walls, gates and gardens giving a wide view across the water to the flat plain of Vojvodina. The park below is where the city strolls on Sunday afternoons.
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Belgrade is where the day begins. Next is Pojejena - Șitarnița.
The Danube here is wide and slow, and across the water you look straight into Serbia. Pojejena is a village on the Romanian bank in the Danube gorge region known as the Clisura Dunării, and nearby Şitarniţa is the site of a Roman fort, one of the stations that guarded the river frontier. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania, inscribed in 2024. The Danube was the backbone of Rome's northern defences for centuries, and forts like this one lined its banks.
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Pojejena - Șitarnița comes up about 131 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vărădia - Chilii.
Vărădia is a village in the Banat, in southwestern Romania, close to the Serbian border, where the hills of the Banat mountains descend towards the Pannonian plain. In Roman times, it was the site of Arcidava, a fort on the road that Trajan's legions built to advance from the Danube into Dacia during the wars of 101 to 106, and later a garrison on the frontier. The site at Chilii, near the village, is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. The fort's earthworks can be traced on a hill above the Caraș river, and the location, controlling the valley, explains why it was chosen.
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At least about 188 km into the recorded legs you reach Vărădia - Chilii. Next is Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
Down in the southwestern corner of Romania, where the Banat plain gives way to the first hills of the Carpathians, the village of Vărădia sits on the edge of a gentle valley that opens toward Serbia. Here, at a place called Pustă, lie the remains of the Roman fort of Arcidava, one of the first stations on the road the Romans built from the Danube crossing at Lederata north into Dacia. Trajan's troops passed this way during the conquest, and the fort guarded the route for the century and a half that followed. Excavations have revealed the outline of the fortifications, and the site is now part of the UNESCO frontier listing.
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Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă, about halfway. Next is Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină.
A hundred wells: that is the meaning of Centum Putea, the Latin name of a Roman fort in the hills of the Banat, near the village of Surducu Mare in Caraș-Severin county. It was one of the forts that guarded the road from the Danube to the heart of Roman Dacia after the emperor Trajan conquered the region in the early second century, and it is part of the line of sites listed by UNESCO as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. Little survives above ground, just traces of earthworks in the fields, but the name alone conjures a picture of a well-watered camp on the road north.
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Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină sits at 200 km, about halfway. Next is back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
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back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă comes up about 254 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Vărădia - Chilii.
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about 261 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Vărădia - Chilii. Next is back through Pojejena - Șitarnița.
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back through Pojejena - Șitarnița, late in the day. Next is Belgrade.
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The route ends here after 450 km.
Belgrade → Pojejena - Șitarnița is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pojejena - Șitarnița → Vărădia - Chilii is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vărădia - Chilii → Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → back through Vărădia - Chilii is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vărădia - Chilii → back through Pojejena - Șitarnița is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pojejena - Șitarnița → Belgrade is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.