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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A 129 km round trip from Caransebeş - roughly 3 h 10 in the saddle. On the way it passes Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu and back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. 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.
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 Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Zăvoi lies in the valley of the Bistra, a river running east to west between the Poiana Ruscă mountains to the north and the Țarcu range to the south, and for most riders it is a waypoint on one of the best roads in western Romania: the old route from Caransebeș in the Banat over the Iron Gate of Transylvania to Hațeg and the Roman capital of Dacia at Sarmizegetusa. The Romans used this corridor too. The road between their fort at Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, and the colony of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa passed through the valley, and Agnaviae was a station along it, where travellers and couriers stopped to rest. Today little remains above ground, but the line of the valley is unchanged.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. Next is back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, 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 → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Iaz Tibiscum Dâmb is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.