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 Pui to Pui, about 3 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Banita, Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor and back through Banita. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Boșorod write-up.
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Boșorod is where the day begins. Next is Banita.
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 comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor.
Petroșani is the capital of the Jiu valley, a long trench between the Retezat, Vâlcan, Parâng and Șureanu mountains in south-western Romania, and for most of the twentieth century it was the heart of the country's hard-coal industry. The hills around the town, including Dealul Botanilor, look down on a landscape of mining towns, pit heads and miners' housing, with the high mountains rising all around.
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about 109 km into the recorded legs you reach Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor. Next is back through Banita.
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Read the complete Banita write-up.
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back through Banita, late in the day. Next is 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 at Boșorod. That is the ride.
Boșorod → Banita is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Banița → Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor → back through Banita is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Banita → Boșorod is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.