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A Salt Mine That Got Converted Into an Entertainment Park

An indoor park like you’ve never seen before

Salina di Turda. | Credit: Anne Bonfert

I guess we’ve all been to some sort of a mine before. Usually, they are either tiny and dark or huge with a wide-open space. But never have I experienced or seen something like this before.

An entertainment park inside a salt mine.

Yes, you did read that correctly. In Romania, you can find an underground entertainment park with a Ferris wheel below the surface.

Picture taken through the window. | Credit: Anne Bonfert

There is nothing spectacular to see from the outside and we had to take a couple of detours to get there because every second road my GPS navigated us toward was either a one-way or under construction.

But eventually, we got to the mine.

The tunnel leading to the mines. | Credit: Anne Bonfert

“Salt was first extracted here during the antiquity. The mine continuously produced table salt from the Middle Ages, the mine being first…