CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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270 km from Caransebeş to Caransebeş, about 5 h 39 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.
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 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 63 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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125 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 / Traianu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu write-up.
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Back at Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu. That is the ride.
Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 63 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 / Traianu is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.