CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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271 km from Caransebeş to Caransebeş, about 5 h 42 of riding. On the way it passes Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu, Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor and back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Where the Bistra and Timiș rivers meet, the Romans built one of the more important towns in their province of Dacia. Tibiscum, near the village of Jupa, grew from a fort into a sizeable settlement, and the low foundations, streets and bath remains can still be walked today with a small museum alongside. Iaz and Satu Bătrân are the neighbouring places on the map, and the whole district sits in the Caransebeș basin, hemmed in by the Țarcu and Semenic mountains.
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Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân is where the day begins. 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.
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Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu comes up 62 km in. Next is Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor.
Petroșani is the capital of the Jiu valley, a long trench between the Retezat, Vâlcan, Parâng and Șureanu mountains in south-western Romania, and for most of the twentieth century it was the heart of the country's hard-coal industry. The hills around the town, including Dealul Botanilor, look down on a landscape of mining towns, pit heads and miners' housing, with the high mountains rising all around.
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123 km in you reach Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor. Next is back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
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back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu, late in the day. Next is Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân.
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Back at Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân. That is the ride.
Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor → back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.