CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 267 km round trip from Caransebeş - roughly 5 h 37 in the saddle. 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.
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 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.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu write-up.
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back through Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu, late in the day. 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.
Back at Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate. That is the ride.
Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 64 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 → Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.