Salina Turda

Salina Turda is a salt mine, theme park and museum – all underground!

Salina Turda is the world’s deepest underground entertainment park and museum, and has its origins as a salt mine.
Salina Turda is located in Cluj County, in the region of Transylvania, in Europe’s Romania.
Salina Turda was mined from as early as 1075 AD, in Medieval Europe, until its closure in 1932, for table salt.
Salina Turda underwent an improvement program costing €5.8 million, that began in 2008 and was completed in 2010.
Salina Turda has four main mines and a number of other rooms, that either contain historic equipment, or are impressively shaped, and some feature large stalactites and other salt formations.

Salina Turda contains constructions that are strange in appearance, often compared with science fiction architecture, with the tube lighting adding to the effect.
Salina Turda is said to have very clean air and limited bacteria, as well as a constant temperature of 11°C to 12°C (52°F to 53.5°F), and its environment therefore does not trigger asthmatic reactions.
Salina Turda mines are as deep as 120 metres (394 feet), and others are 108 metres (354 feet) and 42 metres (138 feet) deep, and they are connected by narrow corridors.
Salina Turda is a popular tourist destination, and it has an underground lake that can be travelled on via boat, a Ferris wheel, mini golf course, bowling lanes, sports field, amphitheatre, billiard tables, table tennis, a spa treatment room and more.
At different times in the 20th century, Salina Turda was used as an antiaircraft shelter and a cheese storage facility, and it opened for tourism in 1992.

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