CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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396 km from Stolnici to Stolnici, about 8 h 07 of riding. On the way it passes Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor, Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis, Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui and Slăveni - La Cetate - auxiliary fort. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Between Pitești and Slatina, in the south of Romania, the land falls away from the Carpathian foothills towards the great Danube plain in a series of long, low ridges cut by streams. It is farming country, with fields of maize and sunflowers, orchards, vineyards and small villages strung along the valleys. Izbășești and the valley called Valea Albă, the White Valley, lie in this landscape near the small town of Stolnici, and the site recorded here is one of the many archaeological traces in the area, though there is probably little to see on the ground.
Read the complete Izbășești - Valea Albă write-up.
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Izbășești - Valea Albă is where the day begins. Next is Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor.
Out on the flat Romanian plain east of the Olt river, the village of Crâmpoia sits among endless fields of wheat, maize and sunflowers, and its name has a place in Roman history. A Roman earthen fort near the village stood on the Limes Transalutanus, the frontier line that the Romans built east of the Olt in the early third century, running from the Danube northward toward the Carpathians, a long earthen rampart with forts and watchtowers. The local name Reduta Tătarilor, the Tatars' redoubt, reflects a common habit in Romania of attributing old earthworks to the Tatars or other invaders, long after the Romans were forgotten. The site is part of the UNESCO-listed frontier of Dacia.
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Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis.
The Olt river rises in the Carpathians and runs south through Romania to the Danube, and in Roman times it was a boundary. The frontier here, called the Limes Alutanus after the Roman name for the river, ran along the Olt on its journey through the plains of Oltenia, and forts were placed at intervals to watch for raiders. Slăveni stands on that line, and the site on our list, a fort known as La Cetate, is beside a cemetery where the people who served there were buried. The nearby site of Romula, a Roman city that became a provincial capital, was a short distance away.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis. Next is Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui.
Southern Romania is as flat as a table, and the Teleorman plain, through which the river Vedea flows towards the Danube, is wheat and sunflower country as far as the eye can see. The Romans pushed their frontier across this plain in the second century, building a long earthen rampart known as the Limes Transalutanus, east of the Olt river, with a ditch and a line of forts and towers behind it. Near Roșiorii de Vede, at Valea Urlui, one of these sites is part of the Roman frontier of Dacia listed by UNESCO. The rampart can still be traced in places as a low bank running through the fields, and on the ground you need a good eye, or a guide, to spot it. From the air it is much clearer.
Read the complete Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui write-up.
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Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui, about halfway. Next is Slăveni - La Cetate - auxiliary fort.
Slăveni is farm country, and the fort here is the sort of ruin you have to meet halfway. "La Cetate" simply means "at the fortress", the name locals gave to a rise in the fields long before anyone excavated it, and what remains of the Roman auxiliary fort is mostly a matter of banks, ditches and the shape of the ground rather than standing walls. If you expect a Hadrian's Wall photograph you will be disappointed; if you like imagining a few hundred soldiers watching a very flat horizon, you will be fine.
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Slăveni - La Cetate - auxiliary fort sits at 176 km, about halfway. Next is back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui.
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back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui comes up about 254 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis.
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about 304 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis. Next is back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor.
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back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor, late in the day. Next is Izbășești - Valea Albă.
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The route ends here after 396 km.
Izbășești - Valea Albă → Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor → Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis → Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui → Slăveni - La Cetate - auxiliary fort is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Slăveni - La Cetate - auxiliary fort → back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Roșiorii de Vede - Valea Urlui → back through Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis → back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor → Izbășești - Valea Albă is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.