» Day Trip to Turda Salt Mine and Corvin Castle from Timisoara

One of the most spectacular day trips we offer is the Turda Salt Mine and Corvin Castle trip. In one day, we’ll get to see one of the most amazing Gothic castles in Europe, hear all the legends about the castle, its owners, and its prisoners, and also get the chance to explore probably the best underground place in Romania and surely one of the best in Europe—the Turda Salt Mine. In between, we’ll have a stop for a traditional Romanian lunch.

For this tour, we will depart at 8 a.m. from Timisoara, as we’ll be driving for around 650 kilometers roundtrip.

We’ll be crossing the forest from Banat to Transylvania, and in less than 2 hours we’ll first stop and visit Corvin Castle, the largest Gothic building in south-eastern Europe that is not a church!
Here we’ll visit all the rooms of the castle that are available, talk about the legend of the family, and discover many interesting things, including the prison!

The next stop will be the salt mine. Surely one of the most impressive salt mines in Europe, it dates back to pre-Roman times (50 BC), and even the Romans dug here in order to have salt.
Today, if we were to extract the total amount of salt you can find here, it would be enough for the whole population of the world for the next 60 years, experts say!

The deepest part of the mine goes 112 meters underground. The salt mine is a big tourist attraction, but people also come here for curative purposes. We can spend time here playing billiards, ping-pong, or even rowing a boat on a small salted lake at the bottom of the mine.
After exiting the mine, we’ll start our journey back to Timisoara (around a 3-hour drive).