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 Gostavăţu it runs 146 km to Gostavăţu; allow about 3 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Reșca - Romula / Cetate, Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor and back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Olt river rises in the Carpathians and runs south through Romania to the Danube, and in Roman times it was a boundary. The frontier here, called the Limes Alutanus after the Roman name for the river, ran along the Olt on its journey through the plains of Oltenia, and forts were placed at intervals to watch for raiders. Slăveni stands on that line, and the site on our list, a fort known as La Cetate, is beside a cemetery where the people who served there were buried. The nearby site of Romula, a Roman city that became a provincial capital, was a short distance away.
Read the complete Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis write-up.
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Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis is where the day begins. Next is Reșca - Romula / Cetate.
Romula was once among the more important towns in Roman Dacia, and the ground at Reșca, in Olt county, is where it stood. The settlement grew near the river Olt on the road between the Danube frontier and the interior, and it rose to the rank of a colony in the later empire; the later name, Romula Malvensis, ties it to the province of Dacia Malvensis that was formed in the third century. Today you see fields, a few low mounds, and the faint outline of an old fortification, with finds from the site kept in nearby museums rather than at the roadside.
Read the complete Reșca - Romula / Cetate write-up.
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Reșca - Romula / Cetate comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor.
Out on the flat Romanian plain east of the Olt river, the village of Crâmpoia sits among endless fields of wheat, maize and sunflowers, and its name has a place in Roman history. A Roman earthen fort near the village stood on the Limes Transalutanus, the frontier line that the Romans built east of the Olt in the early third century, running from the Danube northward toward the Carpathians, a long earthen rampart with forts and watchtowers. The local name Reduta Tătarilor, the Tatars' redoubt, reflects a common habit in Romania of attributing old earthworks to the Tatars or other invaders, long after the Romans were forgotten. The site is part of the UNESCO-listed frontier of Dacia.
Read the complete Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor. Next is back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Reșca - Romula / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate, late in the day. Next is Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis. That is the ride.
Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis → Reșca - Romula / Cetate is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reșca - Romula / Cetate → Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crâmpoia - Reduta Tătarilor → back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reșca - Romula / Cetate → Slăveni - La Cetate - necropolis is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.