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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A 303 km round trip from Baru - roughly 6 h 41 in the saddle. On the way it passes Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie, Roșia Montană Mining Landscape and back through Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Dacians, before the Romans conquered them, built a ring of fortresses in the mountains around their capital Sarmizegetusa Regia, and Banița is one of them, perched on a limestone peak, Piatra Cetii, above the village of the same name. It guarded the southern approach to the Dacian heartland, controlling the route from the Jiu valley, and it was taken by the Romans during Trajan's wars at the beginning of the second century. The Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains, including Banița, were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1999.
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Banița is where the day begins. Next is Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie.
Warm water has drawn people to this corner of the Mureș valley for at least two thousand years. Below the hill of Dealul Urie, near the spa town of Geoagiu-Băi, the Romans built Germisara, a fort on the hill at Cigmău and a bath settlement around the hot springs a few kilometres away, and soldiers and settlers from across the empire came to soak their aches in the thermal pools. Excavations in one of the old spring basins brought up a remarkable hoard of votive offerings, including small gold plaques dedicated to the healing gods and the nymphs, thrown into the water by grateful bathers. The ruins of the fort on Dealul Urie are low and grassy, but the setting, above a broad river plain with mountains on both sides, makes the climb worthwhile.
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Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. Next is back through Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie.
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Read the complete Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie write-up.
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back through Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie, late in the day. Next is Banita.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Banita write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Banita. That is the ride.
Banița → Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → back through Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie → Banita is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.