Turda
What to see in Turda
Things to see, picked to fill a whole day.
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1Historic salt mineSalina Turda
The town's old salt mine, worked until 1932 and open to visitors since 1992: galleries and halls cut into salt up to 120 m underground, with an underground lake in the Terezia Mine.
It is the most visited sight in Cluj County, with about 600,000 visitors a year, and one of the few salt mines in Europe where the old extraction machinery is still in place.
Durgău, la 4 km pe drum de centru
2Limestone gorge, nature reserveCheile Turzii
A gorge cut into limestone by the Hășdate stream, about 1.3 km long with walls up to 200 m high, a nature reserve of national importance.
It is the best-known natural landscape around Cluj: a path with four footbridges runs along the bottom of the gorge between 200 m rock walls.
Între Mihai Viteazu și Petreștii de Jos, la 12 km pe drum de centru
3History museumMuzeul de Istorie Turda (Palatul Princiar)
The town museum, housed in the Princely Palace, a late-15th-century Gothic building, with collections from prehistory to modern times and finds from Roman Potaissa.
Here you see the finds from the Roman fortress and town of Potaissa and the painting of the 1568 Diet of Turda, which proclaimed religious freedom.
Centru, lângă Piața Republicii
4Roman legionary fortressCastrul roman Potaissa
The fortress of the Fifth Macedonian Legion, built around AD 170 on Dealul Cetății, open to the public as an archaeological park since 11 September 2026.
It is one of the two legionary fortresses of Roman Dacia, part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing, and has just opened after ten years of work.
Dealul Cetății, la 1 km de centru
5Gothic churchBiserica Romano-Catolică din Turda
The Gothic church at the north end of Piața Republicii, built between 1475 and 1504, where the Transylvanian Diet proclaimed religious freedom in 1568.
The Edict of Turda, one of Europe's first acts of religious freedom, was adopted here in January 1568.
Centru, capătul de nord al Pieței Republicii