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 Orăştioara de Sus it runs 357 km to Orăştioara de Sus; allow about 6 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, Voislova - Gara CFR and back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
High in the Orastie mountains, at around twelve hundred metres, a ring of stone terraces climbs out of the beech forest, and it was once the heart of an empire. This is Sarmizegetusa Regia, the capital of the Dacian kingdom, the people who lived in what is now Romania and who fought two bitter wars against the Roman emperor Trajan in 101-102 and 105-106 AD. The site at Gradistea de Munte was a fortress, a religious centre and a town in one, with workshops, houses on artificial terraces, and a sacred precinct with round and rectangular temples marked out by stone bases and by pillars of andesite. Together with five other Dacian fortresses in the same hills, it was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1999.
Read the complete Grădiștea de Munte - Dealul Șesului write-up.
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Grădiștea de Munte - Dealul Șesului is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 179 km into the recorded legs you reach Voislova - Gara CFR. Next is back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
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back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, late in the day. Next is Grădiștea de Munte - Dealul Șesului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grădiștea de Munte - Dealul Șesului write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Grădiștea de Munte - Dealul Șesului. That is the ride.
Grădiștea de Munte - Dealul Șesului → Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Voislova - Gara CFR is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Voislova - Gara CFR → back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Grădiștea de Munte - Dealul Șesului is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.