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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205 km from Caransebeş to Caransebeş, about 4 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Voislova - Gara CFR, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu, Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 and back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 Voislova - Gara CFR.
The Bistra valley is a natural corridor, and armies have known it for millennia. Running east from Caransebeș toward the Iron Gate of Transylvania and the Hațeg basin, it was the route by which Trajan's legions advanced on the Dacian heartland in the wars of AD 101 to 106, and later the road that linked Roman forts and towns along the way. Near the village of Voislova, by the railway station, the remains of a Roman site have been identified as counted within the UNESCO serial site of the Dacian frontier, a reminder of how important this valley was to the Roman presence in the province.
Read the complete Voislova - Gara CFR write-up.
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Voislova - Gara CFR comes up about 34 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 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. Next is Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2.
On a hill above the Strei valley near the village of Pui, in south-western Transylvania, faint earthworks mark one of the many small Roman military posts that guarded the province of Dacia after Trajan conquered it in AD 106. The Romans held Dacia for about a hundred and seventy years, and they ringed it with forts, watchtowers and roads; in 2024 a long series of these sites was added to the World Heritage list as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. At Dealul Robului there is nothing grand to see, just the shape of the ground under grass and trees, but the position tells you everything: a clear view down the valley, which was one of the routes into the heart of the province.
Read the complete Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 write-up.
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Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2, about halfway. Next is back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
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Read the complete Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu write-up.
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back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Voislova - Gara CFR.
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Read the complete Voislova - Gara CFR write-up.
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back through Voislova - Gara CFR comes up about 170 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.
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Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu closes the day.
Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu → Voislova - Gara CFR is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voislova - Gara CFR → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 → back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Voislova - Gara CFR is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Voislova - Gara CFR → Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.