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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209 km from Sarmizegetusa to Sarmizegetusa, about 4 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Voislova - Gara CFR, Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân, Teregova - La Hideg and back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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.
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Voislova - Gara CFR comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân.
Where the Bistra and Timiș rivers meet, the Romans built one of the more important towns in their province of Dacia. Tibiscum, near the village of Jupa, grew from a fort into a sizeable settlement, and the low foundations, streets and bath remains can still be walked today with a small museum alongside. Iaz and Satu Bătrân are the neighbouring places on the map, and the whole district sits in the Caransebeș basin, hemmed in by the Țarcu and Semenic mountains.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân. 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.
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Teregova - La Hideg, about halfway. Next is back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân.
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back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Voislova - Gara CFR.
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back through Voislova - Gara CFR comes up about 181 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
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Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu closes the day.
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 → Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân → Teregova - La Hideg is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Iaz Tibiscum / Satu Bătrân → back through Voislova - Gara CFR is 35 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.