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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A 411 km round trip from Pojejena - roughly 8 h 08 in the saddle. It goes by way of Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă, Berzovia - Berzobis, Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie and Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Serbia into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Danube here is wide and slow, and across the water you look straight into Serbia. Pojejena is a village on the Romanian bank in the Danube gorge region known as the Clisura Dunării, and nearby Şitarniţa is the site of a Roman fort, one of the stations that guarded the river frontier. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania, inscribed in 2024. The Danube was the backbone of Rome's northern defences for centuries, and forts like this one lined its banks.
Read the complete Pojejena - Șitarnița write-up.
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Pojejena - Șitarnița is where the day begins. Next is Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
Down in the southwestern corner of Romania, where the Banat plain gives way to the first hills of the Carpathians, the village of Vărădia sits on the edge of a gentle valley that opens toward Serbia. Here, at a place called Pustă, lie the remains of the Roman fort of Arcidava, one of the first stations on the road the Romans built from the Danube crossing at Lederata north into Dacia. Trajan's troops passed this way during the conquest, and the fort guarded the route for the century and a half that followed. Excavations have revealed the outline of the fortifications, and the site is now part of the UNESCO frontier listing.
Read the complete Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă write-up.
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Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Berzovia - Berzobis.
Only a handful of sentences survive from the Emperor Trajan's own account of his wars against the Dacians, and one of them mentions this place. Quoted by a later grammarian, it reads, in Latin, that from there we advanced to Berzobis, then to Aizi. Berzobis is the village now called Berzovia, in the Banat hills of south-western Romania, and the site of the Roman fort here, where the Fourth Legion Flavia Felix was stationed after the conquest, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania inscribed in 2024.
Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Berzovia - Berzobis. Next is Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
Caput Bubali, the head of the buffalo, is a wonderfully odd Roman name, and it belongs to a station on the road that carried troops and supplies north from the Danube into the heart of Dacia after Trajan's conquest. The hill known as Cetățuie, near the villages of Brebu and Cornuțel in the Banat, holds the earthworks of a fort that guarded this route as it threaded through the hills towards Tibiscum, the important Roman centre near Caransebeș. It is part of the Dacian frontier group listed by UNESCO in 2024, and like much of it, it needs a little imagination and a good eye for ditches and banks.
Read the complete Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie write-up.
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Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, about halfway. 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.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe sits at 184 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie comes up about 245 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Berzovia - Berzobis.
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Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
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about 300 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Berzovia - Berzobis. Next is back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
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Read the complete Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă write-up.
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back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă, late in the day. Next is Pojejena - Șitarnița.
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Read the complete Pojejena - Șitarnița write-up.
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The route ends here after 411 km.
Pojejena - Șitarnița → Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → Berzovia - Berzobis is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berzovia - Berzobis → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → back through Berzovia - Berzobis is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Berzovia - Berzobis → back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → Pojejena - Șitarnița is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.