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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Plugova it runs 610 km to Plugova; allow about 10 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu and back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is where the day begins. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
The Cerna is a mountain river in south-western Romania, flowing through a long, deep valley between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains before reaching the old spa town of Băile Herculane. The Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park protects this valley and the mountains around it, a landscape of limestone cliffs, gorges, caves and some of the largest old-growth beech forests in Europe, part of the UNESCO site for the ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
The Cerna valley in southwestern Romania is a deep limestone gorge between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains, with cliffs, caves and forests rising steeply on both sides. The Domogled–Valea Cernei National Park protects this wild landscape, and its beech forests, some of them untouched for centuries, became part of the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe in 2017. The park is also home to a rare variety of black pine that grows on the steep limestone slopes, and to bears, wolves, lynx and chamois, as well as horned vipers and a remarkable variety of butterflies.
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about 199 km into the recorded legs you reach Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne sits at 406 km, about halfway. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei comes up about 512 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
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Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină closes the day.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 106 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 106 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 101 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.