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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From Orăştioara de Sus it runs 356 km to Orăştioara de Sus; allow about 6 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, Voislova - Gara CFR and back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște. 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 Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
The Mureș flows west across Transylvania towards Hungary, and near the village of Vețel, just west of Deva, the Romans built one of the most important forts in their province of Dacia. Micia guarded the river and the road along the valley, the main route between Transylvania and the Pannonian plain, and around the fort grew a large civil settlement with baths, temples and an amphitheatre. Excavations have revealed much of it, though part of the site lies under a power station built in the twentieth century.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
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Vețel - Micia / Grădiște comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 178 km into the recorded legs you reach Voislova - Gara CFR. Next is back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vețel - Micia / Grădiște write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște, 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 → Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Voislova - Gara CFR is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Voislova - Gara CFR → back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Vețel - Micia / Grădiște → Sarmizegetusa is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.