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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From Berzovia it runs 249 km to Berzovia; allow about 5 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate and back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Only a handful of sentences survive from the Emperor Trajan's own account of his wars against the Dacians, and one of them mentions this place. Quoted by a later grammarian, it reads, in Latin, that from there we advanced to Berzobis, then to Aizi. Berzobis is the village now called Berzovia, in the Banat hills of south-western Romania, and the site of the Roman fort here, where the Fourth Legion Flavia Felix was stationed after the conquest, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania inscribed in 2024.
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Berzovia - Berzobis is where the day begins. 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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Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Zăvoi lies in the valley of the Bistra, a river running east to west between the Poiana Ruscă mountains to the north and the Țarcu range to the south, and for most riders it is a waypoint on one of the best roads in western Romania: the old route from Caransebeș in the Banat over the Iron Gate of Transylvania to Hațeg and the Roman capital of Dacia at Sarmizegetusa. The Romans used this corridor too. The road between their fort at Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, and the colony of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa passed through the valley, and Agnaviae was a station along it, where travellers and couriers stopped to rest. Today little remains above ground, but the line of the valley is unchanged.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. Next is Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate.
Jupa is a village in the Banat, just beside the site of Tibiscum, the Roman town that grew where the Timiș and the Bistra meet at the foot of the Southern Carpathians. Today it has an archaeological museum and a field of excavations, with the remains of the fort, the baths and the civilian houses that once stood here. The Romans took over the Dacian lands in the early second century, and Tibiscum, sitting on a main road to the Danube, became a busy place of soldiers, merchants, craftsmen and priests. Some of the finds from the town show how mixed it was, with Greek, Roman and local gods all being worshipped.
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Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate, about halfway. Next is back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
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back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie comes up about 194 km into the recorded legs. Next is Berzovia - Berzobis.
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Berzovia - Berzobis closes the day.
Berzovia - Berzobis → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate → back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Berzovia - Berzobis is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.