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The Google Street View cars will be on roads in Romania as of June 25 for two months to update the Google Maps images. The main focus will be on shooting the roads and streets that are linking localities. Google Street View has been…

A van transporting tourists to Unirea Mine - Slanic Prahova salt mine, overturned on Sunday. 22 Israeli tourists were in the vehicle. Several ambulances arrived at the site of the accident and carried the wounded to the hospital, ziare.com…

80 miners are on an underground protest for about 24 hours, at Slanic Prahova salt mine and other 100 employees are on strike. They claim they cannot work anymore for the minimum wage and with 40-year old equipments. Trade union leader…

Salina Turda/Turda salt mine in Cluj county has posted a record of visitors last year, seeing over 600,000 visitors, with 35% of them being foreign tourists. Most of the foreign visitors were from Hungary, Poland, Israel or Spain.…

The only anthropomorphic lake in Europe, Gavril Lake is located in Ocna Șugatag resort in Maramureș (northern Romania). The lake was formed on the site of a former salt mine more than half century ago. Although it has a depth of only 30…

The salt mine from Turda, also known in Romanian as Salina Turda in Cluj county, tapped CNN’s attention, which featured it as a story highlight on Wednesday after taking it over from The Spaces, a digital publication exploring new ways to…

A touristic documentary promoting a part of Romania in an off-beat way will be released at Turda salt mine on Sunday, July 5, starting 13:00. It is actually a documentary starring acrobat Flaviu Cernescu (photo), which presents extreme…

Google launched Street View panoramic photos in Turda salt mine on Google Maps, enabling anyone to virtually visit the sight. “It’s the first underground entrance in Romania for Google Street View, the service is particularly useful to…

Have you ever considered going West up to Cluj-Napoca searching for an oasis of relaxation and pure health while exploring the depth of the Planet Earth? Then maybe you remember taking into account Salina Turda as a possible destination.…