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 Boşorod it runs 567 km to Boşorod; allow about 17 h 35 of riding. The stops in between: Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea, Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor, Vețel - Micia / Grădiște and Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Blidaru is the Dacian fortress that makes you rethink what you know about the people Rome conquered. It stands on a steep hill above the village of Costești, in the Orăștie mountains of Transylvania, and its walls are built of precisely cut limestone blocks, laid in the Dacian style called murus dacicus, with timber ties inside to absorb shocks. The builders learned from Greek masonry, and the result is a fortress with strong corner towers and a small square citadel, built on a terrace carved out of the mountain. It was one of the defences guarding Sarmizegetusa Regia, the Dacian capital, a few valleys away, and the group of Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie mountains was listed by UNESCO in 1999.
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Costesti -Blidaru is where the day begins. Next is Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea.
High above the Sebeș and Cugir valleys, where the Șureanu foothills fold into long grassy shoulders, the Romans kept watch over the southern approaches to their province of Dacia. The name on the map, Muncelu-Lăutaorea, belongs to the ridge country above Pianu de Jos, and it is one of the many small frontier points that archaeologists have tied to the Roman defensive system here. Do not expect walls to lean on. What survives on these hilltops is usually a faint platform, a ditch you notice only when the light is low, and a view that explains everything about why a sentry was posted there.
Read the complete Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea write-up.
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Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor. Next is Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
The Mureș flows west across Transylvania towards Hungary, and near the village of Vețel, just west of Deva, the Romans built one of the most important forts in their province of Dacia. Micia guarded the river and the road along the valley, the main route between Transylvania and the Pannonian plain, and around the fort grew a large civil settlement with baths, temples and an amphitheatre. Excavations have revealed much of it, though part of the site lies under a power station built in the twentieth century.
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Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, about halfway. Next is Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic.
In the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, gold has shaped the land and its people for two thousand years. The Romans came for it after conquering Dacia, organising the mining from a centre at Ampelum, today the town of Zlatna, whose name comes from the Slavic word for gold. Trâmpoiele, on the high ground near Almașu Mare, is one of the many small sites connected to that Roman presence, where mining, settlement and watch posts dotted the hills. A little further north, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană, with its Roman galleries cut deep into the rock, was listed by UNESCO in 2021 and gives the clearest idea of how the ancient gold was won.
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Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic sits at 170 km, about halfway. Next is back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
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back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște comes up about 365 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor.
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about 424 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor. Next is back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea.
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back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea, late in the day. Next is Costesti -Blidaru.
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Read the complete Costesti -Blidaru write-up.
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The route ends here after 567 km.
Costesti -Blidaru → Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea → Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic → back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea → Costesti -Blidaru is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.