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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363 km from Oţelu Roşu to Oţelu Roşu, about 6 h of riding. On the way it passes Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, Teregova - La Hideg, Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină and Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Serbia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Teregova - La Hideg.
Teregova is a village in the narrow corridor between the Banat mountains and the Țarcu range in western Romania, where the Timiș river flows north toward the plain and a low pass leads south to the Cerna and the Danube. This corridor has been a route since ancient times: the Roman road from Dierna, on the Danube, to Tibiscum, near Caransebeș, ran through here, linking the river crossing with the heart of the province of Dacia. La Hideg is a local place name near the village, and the point is listed among the sites of the Roman frontier of Dacia, the UNESCO site recognised in 2024. As with many such sites, the remains may be hard to spot, but the logic of the location is clear.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Teregova - La Hideg. 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.
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Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină, about halfway. 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.
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Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină.
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back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină comes up about 235 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Teregova - La Hideg.
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about 267 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Teregova - La Hideg. Next is back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie.
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back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie, late in the day. Next is Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe.
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The route ends here after 363 km.
Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe → Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Teregova - La Hideg is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Teregova - La Hideg → Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Drobeta-Turnu Severin -Drobeta → back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehadia - Praetorium / Zidină → back through Teregova - La Hideg is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Teregova - La Hideg → back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brebu - Caput Bubali /Cetăţuie → Zăvoi - Agnaviae / Balta Neagră-Fânețe is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.