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Turda Keys are a protected natural reservation in Romania, located at a distance of 6 km west from Turda, along the valley Hasdate.
The length of the of the Turda Keys is of 2.900 m. The walls height is up to 300 m. The surface occupied by the Keys is of 125 ha and were formed by the erosion of the jurassic limestone rock by the river Hasdate.
Turda Keys has a landscape with a gorgeous natural beauty that shelters high and step cliffs, sharp increases, stone towers, arcades and over 1.000 species of plants and animals, some of them rare elements.
To get tot the natural reservation Turda Keys you have to pass Turda. At the bifurcation with the road to Campeni you have to go to the right about ten kilometers, to the Cheia village indicator. The road is not to good but the view and the beauty takes away all the road problems.
In this area there are known over 60 small caves of about 20 meters long. Aldo there is one of 120 meters.
The most known in the one from the right side of the nearest bridge named Balica's cave. This name cames from an outlaw from these places named Nicholas Balice.
He participated two houndred years ago in a revolt against Austrian rullers and he hided in the cave which today has his name.
The road goes some houndret meters and stops easely at the foothills that descend from the two slopes of Turda Keys.
