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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355 km from Orăştioara de Sus to Orăştioara de Sus, about 6 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, Voislova - Gara CFR and back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Grădiștea de Munte is where the Dacian capital stood, and the hills around it hold the remains of Sarmizegetusa Regia, the mountain city that Decebalus ruled from about AD 87 until the Roman legions broke it in 106. The site lies high in the Șureanu mountains, around twelve hundred metres up, on a series of man-made terraces cut into the slope. The most striking remains are the sacred zone, with circular sanctuaries of stone and wood pillars and a large round altar of andesite, often called the sun disc, which may have served as a calendar or a place of sacrifice. Whatever it was, it is a place with presence, set among dark conifers and mountain meadows.
Read the complete Grădiștea de Munte - Muncel write-up.
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Grădiștea de Munte - Muncel 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.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
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Vețel - Micia / Grădiște comes up about 75 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 178 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, late in the day. Next is Grădiștea de Munte - Muncel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grădiștea de Munte - Muncel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Grădiștea de Munte - Muncel. That is the ride.
Grădiștea de Munte - Muncel → Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 75 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 - Muncel is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.