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Dedeman opens 48th store in Romania with EUR 10 mln investment

Edit Topix 25 Sep 2017
Dedeman, the biggest Do-It-Yourself retailer in Romania, will open a store in Turda, near Cluj-Napoca, with a EUR 10 million investment. The new store will cover 11,500 sqm, which will also include a large green area and a parking lot with 457 parking spots ... ....

Jeremy Lee’s recipe for greengage clafoutis

Edit The Guardian 16 Sep 2017
Our columnist’s search for the perfect clafoutis recipe comes by way of Transylvania – a golden beauty studded with greengage plums as velvety as they are verdant. Food & drink ... Read more ... I had been flown to Cluj and driven to Turda on the Transylvanian plains, a historical region in Romania renowned for its beauty. The market in Turda had tables piled high with some of the finest, freshest produce I have ever seen for sale in a market....

Romania Seeks World Bank Aid Over Stalled Highways

Edit Balkan Insight 11 Sep 2017
With numerous highway projects stalled by incompetence and corruption, the government is turning to the World Bank, hoping it can help it get back into gear. Ana Maria Touma. BIRN. Bucharest. Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose asked the World Bank last week to help manage a new project for an old idea ... The A3. ... In 2009, the first 42 km of the A3, linking Turda in Transylvania to the region’s main city, Cluj, was opened ... ....

Three spectacular road trips

Edit Moneyweek 08 Sep 2017
Why travel to Ibiza when you can enjoy the beauty of the Cornish coast? ... tiny but very diverse. Ptuj ... In Cluj-Napoca, the region’s unofficial capital, the “dark, gothic and imposing” St Michael’s Church is a “real scene stealer”, while the former salt mine of Salina Turda is “a subterranean cave of epic proportions” – complete with “illuminated jetty and boating lake”, it “has more in common with a Star Wars set than a museum” ... ....

10 Subterranean Museums Reclaiming Abandoned Mines, Tunnels, Cellars & Docks

Edit Web Urbanist 17 Jul 2017
Often making use of raw, rocky walls, cavernous proportions and the temperature-regulating insulation of the earth, these underground museums give us opportunities to explore spaces that are typically closed to the public ... “The galleries are integrated into the dunes like an open oasis in the sand – a sharp contrast to the nazi fortress’ concrete monolith.” Salina Turda Salt Mines Turned Museum, Romania ... ....

Iraqi refugee, 17, who feared his family would be killed by ISIS was crushed to death by a lorry he was hiding under as it arrived in Britain from France

Edit This is Money 05 Jul 2017
Mohammed Hassan, 17, who was scared ISIS would kill his family, hid under a lorry between Dunkirk and Banbury ... Lorry driver Cristian Turda was trying to make a delivery at Magna Exteriors on the Beaumont Industrial Estate when he realised he had chosen the wrong entrance ... ....

Transylvania: An impromptu road trip through Dracula country

Edit Stuff 21 Jun 2017
I'd love to say our holiday was thought through down to every last detail. It certainly wasn't ... Day one. Cluj ... Transylvania. Day Two ... After confirming, our host in Cund, Istvan, said we should stop off en route at Salina Turda, a former salt mine, now a tourist attraction ... A subterranean cave of epic proportions, and complete with illuminated jetty and boating lake, the Turda salt mine has more in common with a Star Wars set than a museum....

Sporting CP gearing up for Potaissa Turda

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2017
Sporting CP are doing their homework for the Challenge Cup final second-leg against Potaissa Turda, to be played at 15h00GMT this Saturday in Romania ... Just after lunch the squad sat down to watch some videos of Potaissa Turda in action....

Sporting CP, 37-Potaissa Turda, 28

Edit Public Technologies 22 May 2017
Sporting CP are truly in the Challenge Cup driving seat, after mounting a 9-goal advantage in the first-leg against Potaissa Turda ... In fact six minutes followed in which Potaissa Turda didn't find the back of the net even once, with the team from Alvalade pulling ahead 9-4 ... some fine attacking play against a Potaissa Turda side defending man-to-man....

Exploring Los Angeles (and the world) with Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura

Edit The Miami Herald 02 Nov 2016
If you want to visit a catacomb, head to Europe; there are no ossuaries or catacombs in America. "No proper catacombs," Dylan Thuras clarifies. "A proper catacomb is lined with carefully stacked skulls and bones." ... County coroner ... Few people will make it to Romania's Turda salt mine and to the old town of Ghadames in Libya and to New Zealand's Waitomo glowworm caves and to the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno....

A Tip For An Annoying Civilization VI Issue

Edit Kotaku 25 Oct 2016
As turdas points out, it seems like the problem was related to Windows Defender, with the program wanting to scan Civ VI every time you booted it up ... ....

Forget skyscrapers — the world's most beautiful buildings are underground

Edit Business Insider 16 Aug 2016
The United Nations says that the world population will quintuple by 2300. That means cities are about to get very crowded. of humanity already lives in cities, and by 2050, at least of the population will call cities home. In major cities like San Francisco, the demand for housing is outpacing the ability to supply houses ... This 400-foot-deep amusement park was constructed in a former salt mine in Romania, called the Salina Turda ... ....

The Underground Carnival

Edit Slate 16 May 2016
Salina Turda, where all this takes place, is not your standard disused salt mine. Mining has been taking place at Salina Turda since at least the 11th century and maybe as far back as the Roman Empire. Running as a continually working mine from the 17th century, Salina Turda peaked in production during the First World War when Romania’s armed forces demanded large amounts of salt ... Salina Turda was in limbo for the next 60 years....
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