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 Caransebeş it runs 288 km to Caransebeş; allow about 6 h 16 of riding. The stops in between: Berzovia - Berzobis, Cheile Nerei-Beușnița and back through Berzovia - Berzobis. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Tibiscum was a Roman town at the meeting point of two rivers in the Banat, in the west of today's Romania, and the Iaz Dâmb is one of its pieces: a low rise where archaeologists have traced buildings, defences and the signs of a busy settlement. The Romans founded a fort here after the conquest of Dacia in the early second century, and a civilian town grew around it, with workshops, houses, a bath and a temple. It stood on the route that linked the Danube with the heart of the new province, and it was important enough to be given the rank of a municipium.
Read the complete Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb write-up.
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Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb is where the day begins. Next is Berzovia - Berzobis.
Only a handful of sentences survive from the Emperor Trajan's own account of his wars against the Dacians, and one of them mentions this place. Quoted by a later grammarian, it reads, in Latin, that from there we advanced to Berzobis, then to Aizi. Berzobis is the village now called Berzovia, in the Banat hills of south-western Romania, and the site of the Roman fort here, where the Fourth Legion Flavia Felix was stationed after the conquest, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania inscribed in 2024.
Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
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Berzovia - Berzobis comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cheile Nerei-Beușnița.
The water at Ochiul Beiului, the Bey's Eye, is such an intense turquoise that it looks dyed, and the legend says it formed from the tears of a Turkish nobleman mourning a lost love. It is one of the jewels of the Cheile Nerei-Beușnița National Park, in the mountains of Banat in south-western Romania, where the Nera river has cut a deep gorge through limestone over about twenty kilometres. The park's ancient beech forests are part of the UNESCO listing of primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe, and the waterfalls, caves and karst springs make it one of the most beautiful corners of the country.
Read the complete Cheile Nerei-Beușnița write-up.
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about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Cheile Nerei-Beușnița. Next is back through Berzovia - Berzobis.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
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back through Berzovia - Berzobis, late in the day. Next is Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb. That is the ride.
Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb → Berzovia - Berzobis is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berzovia - Berzobis → Cheile Nerei-Beușnița is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cheile Nerei-Beușnița → back through Berzovia - Berzobis is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Berzovia - Berzobis → Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.