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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278 km from Forotic to Forotic, about 5 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate, Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu and back through Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate.
Jupa is a village in the Banat, just beside the site of Tibiscum, the Roman town that grew where the Timiș and the Bistra meet at the foot of the Southern Carpathians. Today it has an archaeological museum and a field of excavations, with the remains of the fort, the baths and the civilian houses that once stood here. The Romans took over the Dacian lands in the early second century, and Tibiscum, sitting on a main road to the Danube, became a busy place of soldiers, merchants, craftsmen and priests. Some of the finds from the town show how mixed it was, with Greek, Roman and local gods all being worshipped.
Read the complete Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate write-up.
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Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu.
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.
Read the complete Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu write-up.
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about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu. Next is back through Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate, late in the day. 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.
Back at Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină. That is the ride.
Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate → Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sarmizegetusa - Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augu → back through Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jupa - Tibiscum / Cetate → Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.