CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Geoagiu it runs 516 km to Geoagiu; allow about 14 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Comărnicel II, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu and back through Comărnicel II. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 Comărnicel II.
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 comes up 65 km in. Next is Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
After conquering Dacia in AD 106, the emperor Trajan founded a new capital for the province in the Hațeg basin, and named it Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa, borrowing the name of the Dacian royal capital in the Orăștie mountains to the north-east. The city grew into a prosperous centre, with a forum, temples, baths, and an amphitheatre that could seat thousands, and its ruins, partly excavated, lie in fields beside the modern village of Sarmizegetusa. The site has a museum, and you can walk around the forum and the amphitheatre, imagining the gladiatorial games that once filled it.
Read the complete Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu write-up.
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129 km in you reach Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. Next is back through Comărnicel II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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back through Comărnicel II, late in the day. 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.
Back at Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor. That is the ride.
Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → Comărnicel II is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Comărnicel II → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Comărnicel II is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Comărnicel II → Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.