CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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506 km from Timişoara to Timişoara, about 9 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină, Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, Vărădia - Chilii and Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Timișoara is a flat, orderly city in the western plain of Romania, the capital of the Banat, a region that has been Ottoman, Habsburg, Hungarian, Romanian and has a mixed memory to show for it. Romanians, Hungarians, Germans and Serbs have lived side by side here for centuries, and the city has the look of a small Vienna, with baroque squares, Secession façades, a big Orthodox cathedral and a handsome opera house with a flight of steps where people gather. It was the first city in continental Europe to light its streets with electricity, in the 1880s, and it also had one of the first horse-drawn trams.
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Timișoara is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
Caput Bubali, the head of the buffalo, is a wonderfully odd Roman name, and it belongs to a station on the road that carried troops and supplies north from the Danube into the heart of Dacia after Trajan's conquest. The hill known as Cetățuie, near the villages of Brebu and Cornuțel in the Banat, holds the earthworks of a fort that guarded this route as it threaded through the hills towards Tibiscum, the important Roman centre near Caransebeș. It is part of the Dacian frontier group listed by UNESCO in 2024, and like much of it, it needs a little imagination and a good eye for ditches and banks.
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about 162 km into the recorded legs you reach Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie. 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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Vărădia - Chilii, about halfway. 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 sits at 219 km, about halfway. Next is back through Vărădia - Chilii.
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back through Vărădia - Chilii comes up about 258 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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about 337 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie. Next is back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină.
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back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină, late in the day. Next is Timisoara.
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The route ends here after 506 km.
Timișoara → Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Vărădia - Chilii is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Vărădia - Chilii → Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Timisoara is 98 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.