CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 527 km round trip from Caransebeş - roughly 12 h 57 in the saddle. On the way it passes Teregova - La Hideg, Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei and Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Romans called it Tibiscum, and it stood where two rivers meet, at the entrance to a pass. Near the village of Iaz, close to the town of Caransebes in the Banat region of south-western Romania, are the remains of what was once one of the more important Roman towns of Dacia, with a military fort and a civil settlement that grew beside it. The site lies at the junction of the Timis and Bistra rivers, on the road that led through the narrow pass known as the Iron Gate of Transylvania, and its position explains its importance: whoever held it controlled the route from the Danube plain into the Transylvanian heartland. Soldiers and traders left behind bath buildings, workshops, inscriptions and the outline of a fort, and a small museum nearby displays what has been found.
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Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu is where the day begins. Next is Teregova - La Hideg.
Teregova is a village in the narrow corridor between the Banat mountains and the Țarcu range in western Romania, where the Timiș river flows north toward the plain and a low pass leads south to the Cerna and the Danube. This corridor has been a route since ancient times: the Roman road from Dierna, on the Danube, to Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, ran through here, linking the river crossing with the heart of the province of Dacia. La Hideg is a local place name near the village, and the point is listed among the sites of the Roman frontier of Dacia, the UNESCO site recognised in 2024. As with many such sites, the remains may be hard to spot, but the logic of the location is clear.
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Teregova - La Hideg comes up 38 km in. Next is Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
The Cerna valley in south-western Romania has been a corridor for armies and travellers since antiquity. Between the Banat mountains and the Mehedinți plateau, the valley carried the Roman road from the Danube crossing at Drobeta northwards toward Tibiscum and the heart of Dacia. At Mehadia, the Romans built a fort known as Ad Mediam, and the remains called Praetorium or Zidină, meaning ruined walls, mark the site. The stone foundations are visible in places, and the site is one of the components of the Roman frontier in Dacia proposed for World Heritage status.
Read the complete Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină write-up.
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77 km in you reach Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
The Cerna is a mountain river in south-western Romania, flowing through a long, deep valley between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains before reaching the old spa town of Băile Herculane. The Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park protects this valley and the mountains around it, a landscape of limestone cliffs, gorges, caves and some of the largest old-growth beech forests in Europe, part of the UNESCO site for the ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, about halfway. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
The Cerna valley in southwestern Romania is a deep limestone gorge between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains, with cliffs, caves and forests rising steeply on both sides. The Domogled–Valea Cernei National Park protects this wild landscape, and its beech forests, some of them untouched for centuries, became part of the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe in 2017. The park is also home to a rare variety of black pine that grows on the steep limestone slopes, and to bears, wolves, lynx and chamois, as well as horned vipers and a remarkable variety of butterflies.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei comes up 191 km in. Next is back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
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230 km in you reach back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină. Next is back through Teregova - La Hideg.
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back through Teregova - La Hideg, late in the day. Next is Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu.
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Read the complete Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu write-up.
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The route ends here after 527 km.
Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu → Teregova - La Hideg is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → back through Teregova - La Hideg is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teregova - La Hideg → Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.