CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Târgu Jiu it runs 737 km to Târgu Jiu; allow about 20 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină and Izvoarele Nerei. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne comes up 42 km in. 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.
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85 km in you reach Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. Next is Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
The Cerna valley in south-western Romania has been a corridor for armies and travellers since antiquity. Between the Banat mountains and the Mehedinți plateau, the valley carried the Roman road from the Danube crossing at Drobeta northwards toward Tibiscum and the heart of Dacia. At Mehadia, the Romans built a fort known as Ad Mediam, and the remains called Praetorium or Zidină, meaning ruined walls, mark the site. The stone foundations are visible in places, and the site is one of the components of the Roman frontier in Dacia proposed for World Heritage status.
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Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină, about halfway. Next is Izvoarele Nerei.
High in the Semenic mountains of south-western Romania, in the Banat region, the Nera river is born in a forest of ancient beech trees. The Izvoarele Nerei reserve, the springs of the Nera, protects one of the largest areas of virgin beech forest in Europe, with trees over thirty metres tall and centuries old, untouched by logging. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.
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Izvoarele Nerei sits at 169 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
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back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină comes up 211 km in. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
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254 km in you reach back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, late in the day. Next is Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu.
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The route ends here after 737 km.
Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 56 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 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Izvoarele Nerei is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Izvoarele Nerei → back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 36 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 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.