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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A 297 km round trip from Vărădia - roughly 6 h 09 in the saddle. The stops in between: 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. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Vărădia is a village in the Banat, in southwestern Romania, close to the Serbian border, where the hills of the Banat mountains descend towards the Pannonian plain. In Roman times, it was the site of Arcidava, a fort on the road that Trajan's legions built to advance from the Danube into Dacia during the wars of 101 to 106, and later a garrison on the frontier. The site at Chilii, near the village, is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia. The fort's earthworks can be traced on a hill above the Caraș river, and the location, controlling the valley, explains why it was chosen.
Read the complete Vărădia - Chilii write-up.
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Vărădia - Chilii 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 30 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.
Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
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about 54 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.
Read the complete Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe write-up.
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Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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Read the complete Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie write-up.
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back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie comes up about 187 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Berzovia - Berzobis.
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Read the complete Berzovia - Berzobis write-up.
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about 242 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Berzovia - Berzobis. Next is back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină.
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Read the complete Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină write-up.
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back through Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină, late in the day. Next is Vărădia - Chilii.
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Read the complete Vărădia - Chilii write-up.
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The route ends here after 297 km.
Vărădia - Chilii → Surducu Mare - Centum Putea / Rovină is 30 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 - Chilii is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.