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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132 km from Caransebeş to Caransebeş, about 2 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu and back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. 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 Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Zăvoi lies in the valley of the Bistra, a river running east to west between the Poiana Ruscă mountains to the north and the Țarcu range to the south, and for most riders it is a waypoint on one of the best roads in western Romania: the old route from Caransebeș in the Banat over the Iron Gate of Transylvania to Hațeg and the Roman capital of Dacia at Sarmizegetusa. The Romans used this corridor too. The road between their fort at Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, and the colony of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa passed through the valley, and Agnaviae was a station along it, where travellers and couriers stopped to rest. Today little remains above ground, but the line of the valley is unchanged.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe comes up about 30 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 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. Next is back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, late in the day. 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.
Back at Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu. That is the ride.
Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Iaz - Tibiscum / Traianu is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.