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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247 km from Roșia Montană to Roșia Montană, about 6 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic, Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor, Costesti-Cetatuie and back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Gold has been mined at Roșia Montană, in the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, for over two thousand years. The Romans, who called the place Alburnus Maior, dug an extensive network of galleries into the mountains to extract the gold, and some of these galleries survive, along with wax tablets found in the mines, recording contracts and daily life. In 2021, after years of controversy, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is where the day begins. Next is Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic.
In the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, gold has shaped the land and its people for two thousand years. The Romans came for it after conquering Dacia, organising the mining from a centre at Ampelum, today the town of Zlatna, whose name comes from the Slavic word for gold. Trâmpoiele, on the high ground near Almașu Mare, is one of the many small sites connected to that Roman presence, where mining, settlement and watch posts dotted the hills. A little further north, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană, with its Roman galleries cut deep into the rock, was listed by UNESCO in 2021 and gives the clearest idea of how the ancient gold was won.
Read the complete Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic write-up.
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Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor.
The Romans never met a hot spring they did not want to bathe in, and at Germisara, now Geoagiu-Băi, they found warm water bubbling from the ground in a valley at the edge of the Apuseni mountains. They built baths, carved pools into the rock and dedicated offerings to the nymphs and to the healing gods, including small gold plaques found by archaeologists in one of the pools. The site, called Dâmbul Romanilor, the Romans' hillock, sits on the World Heritage list as part of the Dacian frontier, together with the military fort of Germisara in the Mureș valley below. Today, Geoagiu-Băi is again a spa resort, with modern pools fed by the same warm springs.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor. Next is Costesti-Cetatuie.
The Dacians built their strongholds high in the Orăștie mountains, and the fortress of Costești-Cetățuie was one of the gateways to their heartland. Standing on a steep hill above the valley of the Grădiștea river, it was protected by walls built in the Dacian style, the murus dacicus, with large cut stone blocks bound by timber beams, and by earthen ramparts and palisades. It guarded the road up the valley to Sarmizegetusa Regia, the capital of King Decebalus, which the Romans captured in the wars of 101 to 106 that turned Dacia into a province. The fortresses of the Orăștie mountains are listed together by UNESCO.
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Costesti-Cetatuie, about halfway. Next is back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor.
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back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic.
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Read the complete Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic write-up.
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back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic comes up about 200 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roșia Montană Mining Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roșia Montană Mining Landscape write-up.
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Roșia Montană Mining Landscape closes the day.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape → Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic → Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → Costesti-Cetatuie is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Costești-Cetățuie → back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Geoagiu-Băi - Germisara / Dâmbul Romanilor → back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic → Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.