Salina Turda

[2] Salina Turda was ranked in 2013 by Business Insider as among the "25 hidden gems around the world that are worth the trek".

[4] The first document that speaks explicitly about the existence of a salt mine in Turda dates from 1 May 1271, being issued by the Hungarian chancellery.

Documents preserved from the 13th and 14th centuries that refer to the Turda salt mines mention that salines were arranged in the Băile Sărate microdepression and on the southeastern slope of the Valea Sărată.

[7] In 2008, the salt mine was modernized and improved under the program PHARE 2005 ESC large regional/local infrastructure, worth €5,888,000.

The octagonal room hosts a winch called "crivac" or "gepel", rudimentary machinery used to lift salt rocks on the surface.

The underground lake is between 0.5 and 8 metres (1.6 and 26.2 ft) deep and occupies about 80 percent of the operating room hearth area.

Infiltrations of water in the extraction pit determined the deposits of efflorescences and formation of stalactites, and in the lake that partially covers the hearth of the room are salt crystals.