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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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214 km from Petrila to Petrila, about 3 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Boșorod, Costesti-Cetatuie and back through Boșorod. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
High on a limestone outcrop above the village of Bănița, in the hills of south-western Transylvania, stand the ruins of a Dacian fortress. Bănița is one of the six Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains listed by UNESCO in 1999, part of the defensive system built around the capital of the Dacian kingdom, Sarmizegetusa Regia, in the first century BC and the first century AD. The kingdom's last great ruler, Decebalus, held out against Rome in two hard wars before Trajan's legions finally conquered Dacia in 106, an event recorded in stone on Trajan's Column in Rome.
Read the complete Bănița - Jigoru Mare write-up.
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Bănița - Jigoru Mare is where the day begins. Next is Boșorod.
South of the Mures and west of the Retezat massif, the Hateg country is an oddly self-contained basin, ringed by mountains and full of old stories. Bosorod lies on its eastern side, near the town of Pui, in a landscape of meadows, small farms and wooded slopes that rise gradually toward the Orastie Mountains. This is where the Dacians built their strongholds, and the fortress at Banita, which shares the label with Jigoru Mare, is one of six that make up the UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains.
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Boșorod comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Costesti-Cetatuie.
The Dacians built their strongholds high in the Orăștie mountains, and the fortress of Costești-Cetățuie was one of the gateways to their heartland. Standing on a steep hill above the valley of the Grădiștea river, it was protected by walls built in the Dacian style, the murus dacicus, with large cut stone blocks bound by timber beams, and by earthen ramparts and palisades. It guarded the road up the valley to Sarmizegetusa Regia, the capital of King Decebalus, which the Romans captured in the wars of 101 to 106 that turned Dacia into a province. The fortresses of the Orăștie mountains are listed together by UNESCO.
Read the complete Costesti-Cetatuie write-up.
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about 108 km into the recorded legs you reach Costesti-Cetatuie. Next is back through Boșorod.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boșorod write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Boșorod, late in the day. Next is Bănița - Jigoru Mare.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bănița - Jigoru Mare write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bănița - Jigoru Mare. That is the ride.
Bănița - Jigoru Mare → Boșorod is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Boșorod → Costesti-Cetatuie is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Costești-Cetățuie → back through Boșorod is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Boșorod → Bănița - Jigoru Mare is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.