CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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423 km from Forotic to Forotic, about 8 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Izvoarele Nerei, Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină, Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta and back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Serbia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
A hundred wells: that is the meaning of Centum Putea, the Latin name of a Roman fort in the hills of the Banat, near the village of Surducu Mare in Caraș-Severin county. It was one of the forts that guarded the road from the Danube to the heart of Roman Dacia after the emperor Trajan conquered the region in the early second century, and it is part of the line of sites listed by UNESCO as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. Little survives above ground, just traces of earthworks in the fields, but the name alone conjures a picture of a well-watered camp on the road north.
Read the complete Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină write-up.
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Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is where the day begins. Next is Izvoarele Nerei.
High in the Semenic mountains of south-western Romania, in the Banat region, the Nera river is born in a forest of ancient beech trees. The Izvoarele Nerei reserve, the springs of the Nera, protects one of the largest areas of virgin beech forest in Europe, with trees over thirty metres tall and centuries old, untouched by logging. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.
Read the complete Izvoarele Nerei write-up.
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Izvoarele Nerei comes up 52 km in. Next is Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
The Cerna valley in south-western Romania has been a corridor for armies and travellers since antiquity. Between the Banat mountains and the Mehedinți plateau, the valley carried the Roman road from the Danube crossing at Drobeta northwards toward Tibiscum and the heart of Dacia. At Mehadia, the Romans built a fort known as Ad Mediam, and the remains called Praetorium or Zidină, meaning ruined walls, mark the site. The stone foundations are visible in places, and the site is one of the components of the Roman frontier in Dacia proposed for World Heritage status.
Read the complete Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină write-up.
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103 km in you reach Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină. Next is Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta.
The Danube at Drobeta is a river that has just come out of a gorge and is not yet sure what to do with its freedom. Upstream, it squeezes through the Iron Gates, the great rock gorge between the Carpathians and the Balkans, and the water here has the heavy, slow look of something that has been pent up. Drobeta-Turnu Severin lies just below the dams, a city of about a hundred thousand, and on its riverbank are the stones of a very old story.
Read the complete Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta write-up.
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Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta, about halfway. Next is back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
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Read the complete Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină write-up.
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back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină sits at 206 km, about halfway. Next is back through Izvoarele Nerei.
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Read the complete Izvoarele Nerei write-up.
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back through Izvoarele Nerei comes up 258 km in. Next is Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină closes the day.
Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Izvoarele Nerei is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Izvoarele Nerei → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta → back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → back through Izvoarele Nerei is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Izvoarele Nerei → Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.