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 Târgu Jiu it runs 296 km to Târgu Jiu; allow about 7 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Banita, Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie and back through Banita. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Three sculptures, one straight line, and a city that grew up around them: that is the Brâncuși ensemble in Târgu Jiu. The Table of Silence stands near the Jiu river, the Gate of the Kiss marks the entrance to the park, and the Endless Column rises at the far end of the Avenue of Heroes, a stack of rhomboid modules in coppery cast iron climbing nearly thirty metres into the sky. Walk the whole axis from river to column and you will cover about a kilometre and a half.
Read the complete Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu write-up.
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Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 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 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie.
Warm water has drawn people to this corner of the Mureș valley for at least two thousand years. Below the hill of Dealul Urie, near the spa town of Geoagiu-Băi, the Romans built Germisara, a fort on the hill at Cigmău and a bath settlement around the hot springs a few kilometres away, and soldiers and settlers from across the empire came to soak their aches in the thermal pools. Excavations in one of the old spring basins brought up a remarkable hoard of votive offerings, including small gold plaques dedicated to the healing gods and the nymphs, thrown into the water by grateful bathers. The ruins of the fort on Dealul Urie are low and grassy, but the setting, above a broad river plain with mountains on both sides, makes the climb worthwhile.
Read the complete Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie write-up.
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about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie. Next is back through Banita.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Banita write-up.
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back through Banita, late in the day. Next is Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu. That is the ride.
Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu → Banita is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Banița → Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cigmău - Germisara / Cetatea / Dealul Urie → back through Banita is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Banita → Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.