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 Vărădia it runs 294 km to Vărădia; allow about 6 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină, Berzovia - Berzobis, Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie and Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină.
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 comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Berzovia - Berzobis.
Only a handful of sentences survive from the Emperor Trajan's own account of his wars against the Dacians, and one of them mentions this place. Quoted by a later grammarian, it reads, in Latin, that from there we advanced to Berzobis, then to Aizi. Berzobis is the village now called Berzovia, in the Banat hills of south-western Romania, and the site of the Roman fort here, where the Fourth Legion Flavia Felix was stationed after the conquest, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing in Romania inscribed in 2024.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Berzovia - Berzobis. 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.
Read the complete Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie write-up.
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Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, about halfway. Next is Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
Zăvoi lies in the valley of the Bistra, a river running east to west between the Poiana Ruscă mountains to the north and the Țarcu range to the south, and for most riders it is a waypoint on one of the best roads in western Romania: the old route from Caransebeș in the Banat over the Iron Gate of Transylvania to Hațeg and the Roman capital of Dacia at Sarmizegetusa. The Romans used this corridor too. The road between their fort at Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, and the colony of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa passed through the valley, and Agnaviae was a station along it, where travellers and couriers stopped to rest. Today little remains above ground, but the line of the valley is unchanged.
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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Berzovia - Berzobis.
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about 241 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Berzovia - Berzobis. Next is back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină.
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back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină, late in the day. Next is Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă.
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The route ends here after 294 km.
Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă → Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Berzovia - Berzobis is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berzovia - Berzobis → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → back through Berzovia - Berzobis is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Berzovia - Berzobis → back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină → Vărădia - Arcidava / Pustă is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.