Rudolf chamber
An amphitheatre and wheel in a salt cathedral.
Rkoster — CC BY 4.0 · Cristian Bortes — CC BY 2.0 · Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania — CC BY 2.0 · Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania — CC BY 2.0
The chambers are vast, fifty metres high, so there is no sense of confinement; only the first passage is a long tunnel, then everything opens.
A minibus every half hour from Cluj to Turda, then a taxi or a 20-minute walk to the new Durgău entrance.
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The most beautiful place underground in the world, as the magazines call it: Turda salt mine was worked from Roman times until 1932, then turned into a subterranean amusement park 120 metres down — a Ferris wheel, mini-golf, bowling, an amphitheatre and a lake rowed by boat on the floor of a salt chamber as tall as a cathedral, all in futuristic light between rippling salt walls. Descend by glass panoramic lift or wooden stair, then the great Rudolf chamber with its amphitheatre and wheel, the Terezia chamber with its lake and island, the echo chamber, and the old wooden machines that lifted salt by horse. A constant 12 degrees and salt air prescribed for asthma. Half an hour by car from Cluj or an hour by minibus from the Bălcescu stop, and it pairs in one day with the nearby Turda Gorge.
An amphitheatre and wheel in a salt cathedral.
Rowing boats around a salt island.
A nineteenth-century wooden hoist.
Aleea Durgăului 7, Turda