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 329 km round trip from Pui - roughly 6 h 10 in the saddle. On the way it passes Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, Voislova - Gara CFR and back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 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 Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
The Mureș flows west across Transylvania towards Hungary, and near the village of Vețel, just west of Deva, the Romans built one of the most important forts in their province of Dacia. Micia guarded the river and the road along the valley, the main route between Transylvania and the Pannonian plain, and around the fort grew a large civil settlement with baths, temples and an amphitheatre. Excavations have revealed much of it, though part of the site lies under a power station built in the twentieth century.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
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Vețel - Micia / Grădiște comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Voislova - Gara CFR.
The Bistra valley is a natural corridor, and armies have known it for millennia. Running east from Caransebeș toward the Iron Gate of Transylvania and the Hațeg basin, it was the route by which Trajan's legions advanced on the Dacian heartland in the wars of AD 101 to 106, and later the road that linked Roman forts and towns along the way. Near the village of Voislova, by the railway station, the remains of a Roman site have been identified as counted within the UNESCO serial site of the Dacian frontier, a reminder of how important this valley was to the Roman presence in the province.
Read the complete Voislova - Gara CFR write-up.
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about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Voislova - Gara CFR. Next is back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, 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 → Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Voislova - Gara CFR is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Voislova - Gara CFR → back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Boșorod is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.