CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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411 km from Vărădia to Vărădia, about 7 h 16 of riding. The stops in between: Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei and back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Down in the southwestern corner of Romania, where the Banat plain gives way to the first hills of the Carpathians, the village of Vărădia sits on the edge of a gentle valley that opens toward Serbia. Here, at a place called Pustă, lie the remains of the Roman fort of Arcidava, one of the first stations on the road the Romans built from the Danube crossing at Lederata north into Dacia. Trajan's troops passed this way during the conquest, and the fort guarded the route for the century and a half that followed. Excavations have revealed the outline of the fortifications, and the site is now part of the UNESCO frontier listing.
Read the complete Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă write-up.
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Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is where the day begins. Next is Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
Caput Bubali, the head of the buffalo, is a wonderfully odd Roman name, and it belongs to a station on the road that carried troops and supplies north from the Danube into the heart of Dacia after Trajan's conquest. The hill known as Cetățuie, near the villages of Brebu and Cornuțel in the Banat, holds the earthworks of a fort that guarded this route as it threaded through the hills towards Tibiscum, the important Roman centre near Caransebeș. It is part of the Dacian frontier group listed by UNESCO in 2024, and like much of it, it needs a little imagination and a good eye for ditches and banks.
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Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie comes up 73 km in. Next is Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei.
The Cerna is a mountain river in south-western Romania, flowing through a long, deep valley between the Mehedinți and Cerna mountains before reaching the old spa town of Băile Herculane. The Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park protects this valley and the mountains around it, a landscape of limestone cliffs, gorges, caves and some of the largest old-growth beech forests in Europe, part of the UNESCO site for the ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe.
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146 km in you reach Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, late in the day. Next is Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă write-up.
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Back at Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă. That is the ride.
Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Domogled - Valea Cernei - Iauna Craiovei → back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.