Salina

Salina
click your mouse on the image Franz-Josef gallery that makes possible the entrance in the Salt mine.	Please visit with us Salina Turda. the depositTurda salt has been exploited by the Roman Empire in the eighteenth century. The mine was closed in 1932. It is assumed that the volume of underground mining is almost equal to the pyramid of Kheops. One circular dome of mine has a total depth of nearly 120 meters and a diameter of over 80.
The salt mine is over 18 million years old. It has a depth of 1200 m. You can descend in on the wood stairs.There are more galleries:Gallery Franz Jozef, Rudolf mine(80 m long, 50 m width, 40 m height), Terezia mine(112 m height), Anton well, Ghizela room, the sanctuary room.
	The mine has 13 floors, each floor is marked in the year in which the salt was digging Because the water is infiltrated in the northern wall there were formed stalactite growing with a speed of 2 cm / year
In the mine there is a chapel with an altar, dig by the salt miners. Here is silence and the miners prayed to get well to the surface.
	In the salt mine of Turda there worked a lot of workers specialized in salt.The operation of cutting the salt is achieved throught force instalation operated by horses The mines were lit with candles and rushlight tallow.
"Crivacul" extraction equipment is made of pine wood, which essentially resists at the contact with salt. Horses became real convict, were "sentenced" to revolve around the vertical axis until death.