Holidays Paradise

A balneo-climateric resort, including centre of the Salt of Salt Mountain unique world and the largest salt mine in Europe, a city surrounded by picturesque landscapes and having accommodation conditions, treatment and various entertainments, Slanic Prahova is the ideal place for holiday spending.

Slanic Prahova is situated between Prahova and Teleajenului valleys, at about 44 km from Ploiesti and at the height of 400 meters. The resort, of national significance, is opened the whole year through, benefiting from a temperate climate, specific for the woody hills, characterized by pleasant summers (the average temperature in June is 19,5C) and winters which are relatively mild (the average temperature in January is -3,5C).

Slanic Prahova Location

To get to Slanic Prahova by car, from Bucuresti take the DN1 road to Ploiesti and then there are two choices: one is Teleajenului Valley (DN1A) and the other is Varbilaului and Slanicului Valley from Plopeni (DJ102G). I recommend you to take on 102G - the road has been recently improved and the sightseeing is better then DN1A, a much more used road.

The distinct beauty of the natural surroundings, particularities of the local climate determined by location in a basin depression hearth and not far from the last mountain peaks and the presence of the outstanding tourist attractions and spectacular dimensions of bases and treatment recognized, are premises for a pleasant stay, refreshing and quiet.

Developments that still continue in the city, modernized bathrooms and complex arrangements of beaches and terraces in their precinct, pensions, new summer terraces and beautiful park are reasons to believe Slanic Prahova as an attractive tourist resort for people of all ages.

The intense tourism in this area is determined by the existence, at Slanic, of an uncovered salt mountain (a natural preserve) and the picturesque “Lacul Miresii” (the Bride’s Lake, or Grotto, 425 sq. m., 20 m deep) which formed in 1914 when a salt mine cave in. The resort also boasts with many villas, pavilions, private houses available for accommodation.

Unique in the country and in Europe, the Unirea salt mine is formed of 14 rooms, trapezium shaped, having an 32 meters opening at the lower part, a tray of 10 meters and a height of 45 metres. The entire area is of 78 000 square metres and the excavated space is of 2.9 millions cubic meters of salt. The ventilation, it is possible on the natural way, and the temperature is 12 degrees Celsius all over the year. The old salt mine has been turned into an in-patient sanatorium - at the depth of 210 m - for the treatment of respiratory diseases in a salt air micro climate.

The mine was opened in February 1938, but actual works started in 1943 and continued in 1970. Mining in a descending direction, both horizontal and vertical cutting out with specific cutting equipment, the rocks were dislocated by explosions and then transported by mining car to the shaft and up to the preparation and shipping line.

The mine consists of 14 trapezoid-shaped rooms with a ten-meter ceiling and thirty and thirty-two-meter floor width. The height of the rooms is of fifty-four meters and the wall inclination angle is of 60. The level difference between the surface and the mine hearth is of 208 m. 2,6 million cubic meters of rock salt were excavated during the working of the mine. After 1970 the mine became a tourist attraction. It was adequately modified to accommodate both visitors and patients treated for various respiratory diseases in the fully equipped sanatorium housed inside the mine. Qualified medical personnel attended and assisted asthma patients treated in the salt mine sanatorium.

Other rooms house football and handball grounds, a running track and even museum. The works of the sculptor Iustin Nastase, among which the busts of the Roman emperor Traian and the Dacian king Decebal and several other pieces presenting relevant elements of the existence of the Dacian and Roman peoples are exhibited in the “Genesis” room.

For accomodation we recomment you two options: Balneary Center Slanic and Hotel Roberto. Of course you can find many private pensions available where hospitality is a vital point of attraction.