CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Târgu Jiu it runs 647 km to Târgu Jiu; allow about 18 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin and Teregova - La Hideg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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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 40 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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80 km in you reach Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin.
The river Cerna runs through one of the deepest and wildest valleys of the Romanian Carpathians, a narrow gorge between limestone cliffs, before emerging at Băile Herculane, one of the oldest spa towns in Europe. The Romans bathed in its hot springs nearly two thousand years ago and named the place after Hercules. In the nineteenth century, the Habsburgs built grand bathhouses, hotels and casinos in an ornate imperial style, and Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Sisi came to take the waters. Many of these buildings now stand empty and decaying, a haunting sight, though restoration efforts are under way. The surrounding mountains form the Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park, and parts of its old beech forests are included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin, about halfway. Next is Teregova - La Hideg.
Teregova is a village in the narrow corridor between the Banat mountains and the Țarcu range in western Romania, where the Timiș river flows north toward the plain and a low pass leads south to the Cerna and the Danube. This corridor has been a route since ancient times: the Roman road from Dierna, on the Danube, to Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, ran through here, linking the river crossing with the heart of the province of Dacia. La Hideg is a local place name near the village, and the point is listed among the sites of the Roman frontier of Dacia, the UNESCO site recognised in 2024. As with many such sites, the remains may be hard to spot, but the logic of the location is clear.
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Teregova - La Hideg sits at 160 km, about halfway. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin comes up 199 km in. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
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239 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 647 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 → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin → Teregova - La Hideg is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Domogled-Coronin → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 28 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.