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 Sasca Montană it runs 410 km to Sasca Montană; allow about 7 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă, Pojejena - Șitarnița, Vărădia - Chilii and Berzovia - Berzobis. It crosses from Romania into Serbia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The water at Ochiul Beiului, the Bey's Eye, is such an intense turquoise that it looks dyed, and the legend says it formed from the tears of a Turkish nobleman mourning a lost love. It is one of the jewels of the Cheile Nerei-Beușnița National Park, in the mountains of Banat in south-western Romania, where the Nera river has cut a deep gorge through limestone over about twenty kilometres. The park's ancient beech forests are part of the UNESCO listing of primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe, and the waterfalls, caves and karst springs make it one of the most beautiful corners of the country.
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Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is where the day begins. Next is Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
Down in the southwestern corner of Romania, where the Banat plain gives way to the first hills of the Carpathians, the village of Vărădia sits on the edge of a gentle valley that opens toward Serbia. Here, at a place called Pustă, lie the remains of the Roman fort of Arcidava, one of the first stations on the road the Romans built from the Danube crossing at Lederata north into Dacia. Trajan's troops passed this way during the conquest, and the fort guarded the route for the century and a half that followed. Excavations have revealed the outline of the fortifications, and the site is now part of the UNESCO frontier listing.
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Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pojejena - Șitarnița.
The Danube here is wide and slow, and across the water you look straight into Serbia. Pojejena is a village on the Romanian bank in the Danube gorge region known as the Clisura Dunării, and nearby Şitarniţa is the site of a Roman fort, one of the stations that guarded the river frontier. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania, inscribed in 2024. The Danube was the backbone of Rome's northern defences for centuries, and forts like this one lined its banks.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Pojejena - Șitarnița. Next is Vărădia - Chilii.
Vărădia is a village in the Banat, in southwestern Romania, close to the Serbian border, where the hills of the Banat mountains descend towards the Pannonian plain. In Roman times, it was the site of Arcidava, a fort on the road that Trajan's legions built to advance from the Danube into Dacia during the wars of 101 to 106, and later a garrison on the frontier. The site at Chilii, near the village, is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. The fort's earthworks can be traced on a hill above the Caraș river, and the location, controlling the valley, explains why it was chosen.
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Vărădia - Chilii, about halfway. Next is Berzovia - Berzobis.
Only a handful of sentences survive from the Emperor Trajan's own account of his wars against the Dacians, and one of them mentions this place. Quoted by a later grammarian, it reads, in Latin, that from there we advanced to Berzobis, then to Aizi. Berzobis is the village now called Berzovia, in the Banat hills of south-western Romania, and the site of the Roman fort here, where the Fourth Legion Flavia Felix was stationed after the conquest, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania inscribed in 2024.
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Berzovia - Berzobis sits at 180 km, about halfway. Next is back through Vărădia - Chilii.
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back through Vărădia - Chilii comes up about 260 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Pojejena - Șitarnița.
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about 318 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Pojejena - Șitarnița. Next is back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
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back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă, late in the day. Next is Cheile Nerei-Beușnița.
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The route ends here after 410 km.
Cheile Nerei-Beușnița → Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → Pojejena - Șitarnița is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pojejena - Șitarnița → Vărădia - Chilii is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vărădia - Chilii → Berzovia - Berzobis is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berzovia - Berzobis → back through Vărădia - Chilii is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vărădia - Chilii → back through Pojejena - Șitarnița is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pojejena - Șitarnița → back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.