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 283 km round trip from Berzovia - roughly 5 h 54 in the saddle. On the way it passes Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină, Vărădia - Chilii, Cheile Nerei-Beușnița and Pojejena - Șitarnița. It crosses from Romania into Serbia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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 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 27 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Vărădia - Chilii. Next is Cheile Nerei-Beușnița.
The water at Ochiul Beiului, the Bey's Eye, is such an intense turquoise that it looks dyed, and the legend says it formed from the tears of a Turkish nobleman mourning a lost love. It is one of the jewels of the Cheile Nerei-Beușnița National Park, in the mountains of Banat in south-western Romania, where the Nera river has cut a deep gorge through limestone over about twenty kilometres. The park's ancient beech forests are part of the UNESCO listing of primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe, and the waterfalls, caves and karst springs make it one of the most beautiful corners of the country.
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Cheile Nerei-Beușnița, about halfway. Next is Pojejena - Șitarnița.
The Danube here is wide and slow, and across the water you look straight into Serbia. Pojejena is a village on the Romanian bank in the Danube gorge region known as the Clisura Dunării, and nearby Şitarniţa is the site of a Roman fort, one of the stations that guarded the river frontier. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania, inscribed in 2024. The Danube was the backbone of Rome's northern defences for centuries, and forts like this one lined its banks.
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Pojejena - Șitarnița sits at 122 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița.
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back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Vărădia - Chilii.
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about 226 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Vărădia - Chilii. 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 Berzovia - Berzobis.
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Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
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The route ends here after 283 km.
Berzovia - Berzobis → Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Vărădia - Chilii is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vărădia - Chilii → Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cheile Nerei-Beușnița → Pojejena - Șitarnița is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pojejena - Șitarnița → back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cheile Nerei-Beușnița → back through Vărădia - Chilii is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vărădia - Chilii → back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Berzovia - Berzobis is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.