Attractions and Places To See in Cluj - Top 20

The Turda Salt Mine (Salina Turda) is a former salt mine in Cluj County, Transylvania. What makes this salt mine unique is the amusement park located 120 meters underground, featuring a 20-meter-high Ferris wheel, a boat tour on the salt lake, and a miniature golf course. An amphitheater, a bowling alley, and billiard tables are also located deep underground.

The Roman Catholic Piarist Church, originally the Jesuit Church in Cluj, is the first Catholic church built in Transylvania after the Protestant Reformation. It is also the first Baroque church building in the province. The Jesuits built it between 1718 and 1724, modeled on Austrian churches. The church formed an architectural ensemble with the Jesuit academic college, on whose site today stands the central building of the Babeș-Bolyai University. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order, the church was transferred to the Piarists. On Sundays, liturgies are held in Romanian, Hungarian, and Italian. Cultural events are also held here; classical music concerts, in particular, benefit from a special atmosphere and distinctive sound.

The Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral on Avram Iancu Square was built between 1923 and 1933, immediately after the unification of Transylvania with Romania. It is one of the city's most important religious buildings. The church is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1973, when the eparchial see of Cluj was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese, the church became the archiepiscopal cathedral. Since 2006, the building has served as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac, and Cluj, which is also the seat of the Metropolitans of Cluj, Maramureș, and Sălaj. It is currently the third-highest cathedral in Romania after the Evangelical Cathedral of Sibiu and the Metropolitan Cathedral of Timișoara.

These small caves are located right next to the river and you can climb through them with a little skill. The locals have called them "The Washed-Out Hideout".

The second crossing of the Hășdate on the hiking trail is the bridge "At the washed-out hiding place". The suspension bridge swings noticeably, especially when several people are walking on it at the same time. From the bridge you can see the caves on the left bank of the river, which gave it its name.

Unity Square (Piața Unirii) is the heart of Cluj-Napoca. At 220 by 160 metres, it is one of the largest urban squares in the country. It is dominated by a number of historic buildings such as St. Michael's Church or Banffy Palace, as well as the Matthias Corvinus Monument in its centre. There are paid parking spaces and public toilets here. The remains of Roman buildings (Vestigii romane) can be seen under a glass cover.

A faithful replica of the Capitoline Wolf, which according to legend suckled the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, has stood in Cluj-Napoca since September 28, 1921. It is a gift from the Italian state to the city and is intended to remind people of their shared Romanesque roots. The statue, whose base is decorated with a relief of Emperor Trajan and the inscription "Alla citta di Cluj, Roma Madre, MCMXXI", was moved several times until it found its current location in the middle of the Eroilor Boulevards.

The Matthias Corvinus Monument (Monumentul Matia Corvin) is a bronze equestrian statue created by the Hungarian sculptor János Fadrusz and erected in 1902. It shows the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus ("the Raven"), who was born on February 23, 1443 in Cluj-Napoca. Corvinus ruled over Hungary and Croatia from 1458 until his death on April 6, 1490 in Vienna and was also (counter-)king of Bohemia from 1469 to 1490. He conquered large parts of the Habsburg hereditary lands and ruled these areas from Vienna from 1485 onwards. The monument and the inscription on the base have often caused a stir in the past; this culminated in civil war-like unrest between Hungarians and Romanians before the turn of the millennium. The diplomatic result is the current inscription in Latin: "Rex Mathias"