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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248 km from Berzovia to Berzovia, about 6 h 00 of riding. On the way it passes Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu and back through Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 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 Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb.
Tibiscum was a Roman town at the meeting point of two rivers in the Banat, in the west of today's Romania, and the Iaz Dâmb is one of its pieces: a low rise where archaeologists have traced buildings, defences and the signs of a busy settlement. The Romans founded a fort here after the conquest of Dacia in the early second century, and a civilian town grew around it, with workshops, houses, a bath and a temple. It stood on the route that linked the Danube with the heart of the new province, and it was important enough to be given the rank of a municipium.
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Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
After conquering Dacia in AD 106, the emperor Trajan founded a new capital for the province in the Hațeg basin, and named it Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa, borrowing the name of the Dacian royal capital in the Orăștie mountains to the north-east. The city grew into a prosperous centre, with a forum, temples, baths, and an amphitheatre that could seat thousands, and its ruins, partly excavated, lie in fields beside the modern village of Sarmizegetusa. The site has a museum, and you can walk around the forum and the amphitheatre, imagining the gladiatorial games that once filled it.
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about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. Next is back through Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb write-up.
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back through Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb, late in the day. Next is Berzovia - Berzobis.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Berzovia - Berzobis. That is the ride.
Berzovia - Berzobis → Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb → Berzovia - Berzobis is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.