page_title: Salina Turda
section_title: Terezia mine
hierarchical_section_title: Salina Turda / Main attractions / Terezia mine
caption_attribution_description: Română: Salina Turda, galeria de acces Franz-Josef (porţiunea săpată în steril, in afara masivului de sare). 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: This is a conical mine (bell mine). Salt mining in this type of room left behind underground halls of impressive dimensions: 90 metres (300 ft) height and 87 metres (285 ft) diameter. The depth from the mouth of the shafts to the base of the mine is 112 metres (367 ft). A "cascade of salt", an underground lake, stalactites and salt efflorescences complete the inert equilibrium of the giant bell. The underground lake is between 0.5 and 8 metres (1.6 and 26.2 ft) deep and is extended on about 80 percent of the operating room hearth area. In the center of the lake there is an island formed from residual low-grade salt deposited here after 1880, the year when salt mining ended in this room.
caption: The access tunnel
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