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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A 479 km round trip from Târgu Jiu - roughly 8 h 15 in the saddle. It goes by way of Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei and back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 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 Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
The Cerna valley in southwestern Romania is a deep limestone gorge between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains, with cliffs, caves and forests rising steeply on both sides. The Domogled–Valea Cernei National Park protects this wild landscape, and its beech forests, some of them untouched for centuries, became part of the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe in 2017. The park is also home to a rare variety of black pine that grows on the steep limestone slopes, and to bears, wolves, lynx and chamois, as well as horned vipers and a remarkable variety of butterflies.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne write-up.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne comes up about 145 km into the recorded legs. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
The Cerna is a mountain river in south-western Romania, flowing through a long, deep valley between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains before reaching the old spa town of Băile Herculane. The Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park protects this valley and the mountains around it, a landscape of limestone cliffs, gorges, caves and some of the largest old-growth beech forests in Europe, part of the UNESCO site for the ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, 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 → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 145 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu is 145 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.