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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361 km from Sarmizegetusa to Sarmizegetusa, about 7 h 15 of riding. It goes by way of Voislova - Gara CFR, Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe and Teregova - La Hideg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
Read the complete Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu write-up.
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Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is where the day begins. Next is Voislova - Gara CFR.
The Bistra valley is a natural corridor, and armies have known it for millennia. Running east from Caransebeș toward the Iron Gate of Transylvania and the Hațeg basin, it was the route by which Trajan's legions advanced on the Dacian heartland in the wars of AD 101 to 106, and later the road that linked Roman forts and towns along the way. Near the village of Voislova, by the railway station, the remains of a Roman site have been identified as counted within the UNESCO serial site of the Dacian frontier, a reminder of how important this valley was to the Roman presence in the province.
Read the complete Voislova - Gara CFR write-up.
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Voislova - Gara CFR comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie. 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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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe, about halfway. Next is Teregova - La Hideg.
Teregova is a village in the narrow corridor between the Banat mountains and the Țarcu range in western Romania, where the Timiș river flows north toward the plain and a low pass leads south to the Cerna and the Danube. This corridor has been a route since ancient times: the Roman road from Dierna, on the Danube, to Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, ran through here, linking the river crossing with the heart of the province of Dacia. La Hideg is a local place name near the village, and the point is listed among the sites of the Roman frontier of Dacia, the UNESCO site recognised in 2024. As with many such sites, the remains may be hard to spot, but the logic of the location is clear.
Read the complete Teregova - La Hideg write-up.
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Teregova - La Hideg sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
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back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe comes up about 238 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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about 278 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie. Next is back through Voislova - Gara CFR.
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back through Voislova - Gara CFR, late in the day. Next is Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
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The route ends here after 361 km.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → Voislova - Gara CFR is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voislova - Gara CFR → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Teregova - La Hideg is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → back through Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 Voislova - Gara CFR is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Voislova - Gara CFR → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.