CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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460 km from Petrila to Petrila, about 10 h 41 of riding. On the way it passes Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor, Voislova - Gara CFR and back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Retezat range rises to the south, its granite peaks carrying snow into early summer, and the whole area belongs to Hunedoara county, a land of old mining, Dacian history and shepherds who still move flocks through the hills.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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Comărnicel II is where the day begins. Next is Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor.
The Romans never met a hot spring they did not want to bathe in, and at Germisara, now Geoagiu-Băi, they found warm water bubbling from the ground in a valley at the edge of the Apuseni mountains. They built baths, carved pools into the rock and dedicated offerings to the nymphs and to the healing gods, including small gold plaques found by archaeologists in one of the pools. The site, called Dâmbul Romanilor, the Romans' hillock, sits on the World Heritage list as part of the Dacian frontier, together with the military fort of Germisara in the Mureș valley below. Today, Geoagiu-Băi is again a spa resort, with modern pools fed by the same warm springs.
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Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor comes up 79 km in. Next is Voislova - Gara CFR.
The Bistra valley is a natural corridor, and armies have known it for millennia. Running east from Caransebeș toward the Iron Gate of Transylvania and the Hațeg basin, it was the route by which Trajan's legions advanced on the Dacian heartland in the wars of AD 101 to 106, and later the road that linked Roman forts and towns along the way. Near the village of Voislova, by the railway station, the remains of a Roman site have been identified as counted within the UNESCO serial site of the Dacian frontier, a reminder of how important this valley was to the Roman presence in the province.
Read the complete Voislova - Gara CFR write-up.
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158 km in you reach Voislova - Gara CFR. Next is back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor.
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Read the complete Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor write-up.
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back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor, late in the day. Next is Comărnicel II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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Back at Comărnicel II. That is the ride.
Comărnicel II → Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → Voislova - Gara CFR is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Voislova - Gara CFR → back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → Comărnicel II is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.