Located in a hilly area of S?laj county, Casa Catrinei can be the starting point for longer or shorter hikes in the surrounding woods and hills, picking mushrooms, berries and truffles.
In the area you can visit tourist attractions such as:
- the natural reserve "Gr?dina Zmeilor" (20 kilometers, 25 minutes by car) - protected area covering an area of 3 hectares; the "Garden of Kites" area includes an irregular group of rocks (Catanian Girl, Kite and Kite, Santa, Monks, Captain, Cleopatra's Needle, Soldiers, Eve, Doroban?ul, Degetelul, Sphinx), with bizarre shapes (towers, mushrooms, needles, cliffs rocky);
- Jibou Botanical Garden (21.5 kilometers, 30 minutes by car) - the garden occupies the space of the leisure park of the medieval castle that was the residence of the Wesselényi family and is organized by sectors.
- the "Gresiile de la Cli?" natural area (20 kilometers, 25 minutes by car) - from a geological point of view, the "Stanii Cli?ului" hill presents a rocky wall (stanes), made up of sedimentary rocks made up of sandstones (attributed to the geological period of upper Oligocene), with intercalations of red clays and inserts of brown coal;
- The Roman fort at Porolissum (37 kilometers, 45 minutes by car) - one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in Romania, due to its size and preservation method; it was built by the Romans as a border military center, with the role of defending the main crossing between the Carpathians and Dacia Porolissensis;
- The house of the miller in R?stoci (33 kilometers, 40 minutes by car) ? the only house with a thatched roof declared as a historical monument; is over 150 years old and was originally the house of a miller who had a grain mill on the Some? river
On request, we can organize a complete experience for our guests, which includes visits to the nature reserves and tourist attractions mentioned above (Garden of Kites, Jibou Botanical Garden, the Roman fort at Porolissum or the sandstones at Cli?).
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