Turda
Turda the before settlement Potaissa was one of the most important roman towns one of the most important salt exploratory centers from Transylvania. It was firstly mentioned in a document in 1075. The roman motte from the fortress hill has incredible dimensions 573 m length and a width of 408 m and it was fraught with water through terra-cotta piped duct. A part is visitable. At 9 August 1601 on the clearing close to the town it was killed Mihai Viteazu after the order of the imperial commandant Giorgio Basta. The monument of Mihai Viteazul was inaugurated in 1977.
It has a height of 16 m. The systematic exploration of the minerals had begun in the period of the roman occupy of Dacia and it felt after 1840 owing to the concurrence of the Ocna Mures saline. In 1992 the Turda Salina got into the tourist circuit. The museum of history is the only palace (of the Bathory family) from the ending of the XV-XVI century, kept in Transylvania. Built in gothic style in 1560 it guested the Diets of Transylvania. The reformed church was built up under the reign of Sigismund de Luxemburg (1377-1437). The present tower with a height of 60 m was built between 1904-1906. The roman-catholic church is from the XV century it has a length of 50 m and a width of 18,2 m. The balneologic resort having 15 salted lakes deriving from the slide of the ceiling of the old salt mines is indicated against locomotive system, peripheral nervous system, post-traumatic, gynaecological and cardio-vascular disorders. Between Turda and Abrud between 1912-1990 functioned person and goods transit on light-railway. In the regret of very many of us the "light-railway" is just memory.
