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 247 km to Caransebeş; allow about 4 h 31 of riding. On the way it passes Teregova - La Hideg, Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină, Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta and back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Serbia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Teregova - La Hideg write-up.
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Teregova - La Hideg comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină. Next is Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta.
The Danube at Drobeta is a river that has just come out of a gorge and is not yet sure what to do with its freedom. Upstream, it squeezes through the Iron Gates, the great rock gorge between the Carpathians and the Balkans, and the water here has the heavy, slow look of something that has been pent up. Drobeta-Turnu Severin lies just below the dams, a city of about a hundred thousand, and on its riverbank are the stones of a very old story.
Read the complete Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta write-up.
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Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta, about halfway. Next is back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
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Read the complete Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină write-up.
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back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină sits at 187 km, about halfway. Next is back through Teregova - La Hideg.
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Read the complete Teregova - La Hideg write-up.
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back through Teregova - La Hideg comes up about 209 km into the recorded legs. Next is Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu closes the day.
Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu → Teregova - La Hideg is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta → back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 54 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 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teregova - La Hideg → Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.