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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742 km from Plugova to Plugova, about 12 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe 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. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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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Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is where the day begins. 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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Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne comes up about 197 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 370 km into the recorded legs you reach Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. Next is back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne.
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Read the complete Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne write-up.
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back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne, late in the day. Next is Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină. That is the ride.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 197 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 172 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne is 172 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domogled - Valea Cernei - Ciucevele Cerne → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 197 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.