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 151 km round trip from Orăştioara de Sus - roughly 3 h 30 in the saddle. On the way it passes Costesti -Blidaru, Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 and back through Costesti -Blidaru. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sarmizegetusa Regia was the capital of Dacia, a kingdom that once stood between the Carpathians and the Danube, and the ruins lie high in the Orastie Mountains, in the county of Hunedoara. The Dacians were a sophisticated people, with fortified hilltop towns, gold and iron work, and a priesthood. Under their king Decebalus they fought the Roman Empire in two wars, and the emperor Trajan finally conquered the kingdom in 106 AD. The Romans destroyed the capital, but the site survived as a series of terraces cut into a steep mountainside, and it is part of the UNESCO group of Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, listed in 1999.
Read the complete Sarmizegetusa write-up.
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Sarmizegetusa is where the day begins. Next is Costesti -Blidaru.
Blidaru is the Dacian fortress that makes you rethink what you know about the people Rome conquered. It stands on a steep hill above the village of Costești, in the Orăștie mountains of Transylvania, and its walls are built of precisely cut limestone blocks, laid in the Dacian style called murus dacicus, with timber ties inside to absorb shocks. The builders learned from Greek masonry, and the result is a fortress with strong corner towers and a small square citadel, built on a terrace carved out of the mountain. It was one of the defences guarding Sarmizegetusa Regia, the Dacian capital, a few valleys away, and the group of Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie mountains was listed by UNESCO in 1999.
Read the complete Costesti -Blidaru write-up.
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Costesti -Blidaru comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2.
On a hill above the Strei valley near the village of Pui, in south-western Transylvania, faint earthworks mark one of the many small Roman military posts that guarded the province of Dacia after Trajan conquered it in AD 106. The Romans held Dacia for about a hundred and seventy years, and they ringed it with forts, watchtowers and roads; in 2024 a long series of these sites was added to the World Heritage list as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. At Dealul Robului there is nothing grand to see, just the shape of the ground under grass and trees, but the position tells you everything: a clear view down the valley, which was one of the routes into the heart of the province.
Read the complete Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2. Next is back through Costesti -Blidaru.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Costesti -Blidaru write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Costesti -Blidaru, late in the day. Next is Sarmizegetusa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sarmizegetusa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sarmizegetusa. That is the ride.
Sarmizegetusa → Costesti -Blidaru is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Costesti -Blidaru → Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pui - Dealul Robului 1 and 2 → back through Costesti -Blidaru is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Costesti -Blidaru → Sarmizegetusa is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.