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 243 km to Caransebeş; allow about 4 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of 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.
Jupa is a village in the Banat, just beside the site of Tibiscum, the Roman town that grew where the Timiș and the Bistra meet at the foot of the Southern Carpathians. Today it has an archaeological museum and a field of excavations, with the remains of the fort, the baths and the civilian houses that once stood here. The Romans took over the Dacian lands in the early second century, and Tibiscum, sitting on a main road to the Danube, became a busy place of soldiers, merchants, craftsmen and priests. Some of the finds from the town show how mixed it was, with Greek, Roman and local gods all being worshipped.
Read the complete Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate write-up.
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Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate 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 37 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 69 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 184 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 206 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate closes the day.
Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate → Teregova - La Hideg is 37 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 53 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 → Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.