CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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261 km from Băneasa to Băneasa, about 5 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Traian - La Culă, Corabia - Sucidava / Celei, Reșca - Romula / Cetate and back through Corabia - Sucidava / Celei. It crosses from Romania into Bulgaria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Băneasa is Teleorman, and Teleorman is flat. The Wallachian plain here spreads out between the Danube, to the south, and the lower Vedea valley, with big fields, long horizons and the sort of sky that makes motorcyclists look for any rise at all. The label "La Cetate" marks one such rise, where traces of an old fortification are known locally, and the nearby "Traian - La Culă" name hints at the Roman presence that once ran across this part of southern Romania.
Read the complete Băneasa - La Cetate write-up.
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Băneasa - La Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Traian - La Culă.
Teleorman county is flat. It is the heart of the Romanian Plain, an open expanse of black soil that runs from the Carpathian foothills to the Danube, and from the saddle of a motorcycle it looks like a sea of sunflowers, wheat and maize under a very large sky. Traian, a small village a short ride from Turnu Magurele, sits in the middle of it. The label La Cula refers to a cula, the fortified tower house typical of the Balkans, and the name suggests a past with more upheaval than the quiet fields would suggest.
Read the complete Traian - La Culă write-up.
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Traian - La Culă comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Corabia - Sucidava / Celei.
At Celei, a few kilometres from Corabia on the Danube, the Romans built a bridge. It is a thing worth pausing over, because the bridge was built in AD 328, in the time of Constantine the Great, and it linked the Roman fortress of Sucidava on the northern bank with the province on the other side. The bridge was nearly two and a half kilometres long, one of the grandest engineering projects of the late empire, and it gave Rome a way to project power across the river long after the rest of the frontier had begun to crumble. A later emperor, Justinian, rebuilt Sucidava in the sixth century, and the fortress was in use for a very long time.
Read the complete Corabia - Sucidava / Celei write-up.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Corabia - Sucidava / Celei. Next is Reșca - Romula / Cetate.
Romula was once among the more important towns in Roman Dacia, and the ground at Reșca, in Olt county, is where it stood. The settlement grew near the river Olt on the road between the Danube frontier and the interior, and it rose to the rank of a colony in the later empire; the later name, Romula Malvensis, ties it to the province of Dacia Malvensis that was formed in the third century. Today you see fields, a few low mounds, and the faint outline of an old fortification, with finds from the site kept in nearby museums rather than at the roadside.
Read the complete Reșca - Romula / Cetate write-up.
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Reșca - Romula / Cetate, about halfway. Next is back through Corabia - Sucidava / Celei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corabia - Sucidava / Celei write-up.
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back through Corabia - Sucidava / Celei sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Traian - La Culă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Traian - La Culă write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Traian - La Culă comes up about 230 km into the recorded legs. Next is Băneasa - La Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Băneasa - La Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Băneasa - La Cetate closes the day.
Băneasa - La Cetate → Traian - La Culă is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Traian - La Culă → Corabia - Sucidava / Celei is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corabia - Sucidava / Celei → Reșca - Romula / Cetate is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reșca - Romula / Cetate → back through Corabia - Sucidava / Celei is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Corabia - Sucidava / Celei → back through Traian - La Culă is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Traian - La Culă → Băneasa - La Cetate is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.