page_title: Salina Turda
section_title: Crivac room
hierarchical_section_title: Salina Turda / Main attractions / Crivac room
caption_attribution_description: Salina Turda, crivacul minei Rudolf (unica instalaţie de acest gen păstrată în Europa). This is a photo of a historic monument in județul Cluj, classified with number CJ-II-m-A-07801
context_page_description: Salina Turda is a salt mine in the Durgău-Valea Sărată area of Turda, the second largest city in Cluj County, northwest Romania. Opened for tourists in 1992, the Salina Turda mine was visited by about 618,000 Romanian and foreign tourists in 2017.
  Salina Turda was ranked in 2013 by Business Insider as among the "25 hidden gems around the world that are worth the trek".
context_section_description: The octagonal room hosts a winch called "crivac" or "gepel", rudimentary machinery used to lift salt rocks on the surface. It dates from 1881. This machine replaced another, smaller in size, that was installed in 1864. It is the only machine of this kind in all salt mines in Romania and probably in Europe that keeps in its original location.
caption: The crivac is one of the main points of interest in the salt mine.
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