Salina Turda

Salina Turda is a salt mine within the Durgau-Valea Sarata area of Turda, the second one biggest city in Cluj County, Romania. Opened for vacationers in 1992, the Salina Turda changed into visited through approximately 618,000 Romanian and overseas tourists simply in 2017. Salt changed into first extracted here for the duration of the antiquity and the mine constantly produced desk salt from the middle Ages, the mine being first noted in 1075, to the early 20th century.

The first report that speaks explicitly about the existence of a salt mine in Turda dates from 1 May 1271, being issued by way of the Hungarian chancellery. Documents preserved from the 13th and fourteenth centuries that seek advice from the Turda salt mines point out those salines were arranged in Baile Sarate microdepression and at the south-jap slope of the Valea Sarata. Operating rooms had been placed on the web sites of present day salt lakes from the edges stated above. In the 17th century has began first salt mining works on the north-western slope of Valea Valea Sarata, evidenced via shafts in the dome of Terezia room. Shortly after, the Sfantul Anton mine changed into opened, wherein mining interest endured till the primary half of the 20th century.