🚌  Departure – Sala Sporturilor – bus parking, Cluj-Napoca

Time: 08:30

↓       Cluj-Napoca → Turda Salt Mine  |  ~40 km  |  ~60 min

 1   Turda Salt Mine

Tour of approximately 90 minutes – deep galleries, underground lake, Ferris wheel.

↓       Turda Salt Mine → Issa Winery, Dealul Viilor  |  ~5 min

 2   Issa Winery – Lunch and Wine Tasting

Winery tour and tasting of ISSA wines with the Dealurile Transilvaniei geographical indication, followed by lunch overlooking the vineyard on the Durgău Hills. A vineyard replanted since 2011 on the Durgău terraces, a stone’s throw from the salt mine, in an area where vines have been grown since Roman times — hence the name, from Potaissa. It covers some 41 hectares under the “Dealurile Transilvaniei” geographical indication and produces both classic varieties (Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Fetească Neagră) and a few conversation pieces: an orange Chardonnay, a traditional-method (champenoise) sparkling wine and an icewine.

↓       Turda → Rimetea  |  ~35 km  |  ~50 min

 3   Rimetea (Torockó)

A stroll among the white, green-shuttered houses at the foot of Piatra Secuiului and a visit to the ethnographic museum in the village centre. An iron-mining village whose craftsmen were brought from Upper Austria as early as the 13th century; the blend of Székely and German cultures gave it its unique character. The white houses with green shutters are not medieval – they date from after the fire of 1870, when the village was rebuilt in a unified neoclassical style. In 1999 it won the Europa Nostra award for restoring 138 houses – some still bear the medal. Above the village towers Piatra Secuiului, the mountain that makes the sun seem to rise twice in summer – a morning sight, so a story for our afternoon stop.

↓       Rimetea → Cluj-Napoca  |  ~70 km  |  ~1 h 30 min

🏁  Return – Sala Sporturilor – bus parking, Cluj-Napoca