CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 416 km round trip from Geoagiu - roughly 8 h 59 in the saddle. The stops in between: Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic, Roșia Montană Mining Landscape, Gilău - Dealul Cetății and back through Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor write-up.
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Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic write-up.
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Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Roșia Montană Mining Landscape. Next is Gilău - Dealul Cetății.
Gilau sits where the flat plain of the Somesul Mic river meets the first hills of the Apuseni mountains, about fifteen kilometres west of Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and the hill called Dealul Cetatii, which simply means Fortress Hill, rises almost on the edge of the town, about a kilometre away. The town has nearly eight thousand people, and from the road you can see the high, forested ridges of the Apuseni to the west.
Read the complete Gilău - Dealul Cetății write-up.
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Gilău - Dealul Cetății, about halfway. Next is back through Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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back through Roșia Montană Mining Landscape sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic.
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Read the complete Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic write-up.
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back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic comes up about 379 km into the recorded legs. Next is Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor closes the day.
Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → Gilău - Dealul Cetății is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Gilău - Dealul Cetății → back through Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 124 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic → Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.