The Szekler Museum of Ciuc

The memorial house dedicated to the revolution of 1848-49 and to the national assembly of Lutița/Agyagfalva, is located on the meadow, where these events took place. The village of Lutița hosted several Szekler meetings, of which two, those of 1506 and 1848, had decisive role in the history of the Szekler people, in both cases were adopted decisions with legislative power. The memorial house presents the national assembly of Lutița and the bravery of the Szekler soldiers from that period, through the contemporary documents, besides hosts a permanent exhibition, which presents to the visitors the events of 1848.

The Fairy Glade is a group of mineral springs, which flow in open-air pools. The place has a wardrobe and resting points. In 2009, the Ars Topia Foundation decided to build traditional baths in Borsec, using voluntary work. For ten days, young people from Hungary and Transylvania worked together with the locals to arrange these baths. Since then, the baths enjoyed great success among visitors. The project achieved several goals, such as: building swimming pool with mineral water, foot baths, changing rooms, gazebo, sunbeds. There are indicator panels in widely circulated languages, hand-painted on wood and decorated with floral motifs specific to the area. Year after year, the number of tourists visiting these baths is on the rise, but locals also use these mineral waters for different treatments. The Fairy Glade also has belvedere points and picnic or sunbathing areas.  There is no program or entrance fee. 📷 Rédai Botond

We invite you to travel in time in the only European photography studio that works by only using natural light. Ancient cameras, backgrounds, decors and other antique accessories can be seen. You could look inside cameras that are a hundred years old; you could witness the magic of black-and-white film developing in dark rooms. Advance reservation: 0746665797

The Szekler Museum in Ciuc financed the Mineral Water Museum in the center of Tușnad. The design and layout of the exhibition was carried out by Csíki Természetjáró and Természetvédő Egyesület (CsTTE - Tourism and Nature Protection Association from Miercurea Ciuc) and the Ars Topia Foundation, with the help of designers and students from Hungary and Transylvania, as well as aid from local people. The Mineral Water Museum draws attention to the value of the mineral waters in the region, to the history of drinking water and to the spa tradition. The location of the museum is in Tusnad village, a locality where locals, tourists and travelers stop to collect mineral water from the natural springs. Thus, the museum offers the opportunity for those interested to glance at another type of tourism that is quiet and calm, wears boots and has a special theme. The museum is in a building that has the shape of a yurt, because it presents the path of the mineral water from the steam baths of the Scythian and Magyar shamans to the present day spa tradition. The building has ​​40 square meters (the area of ​​the internal exhibition), and the total exhibition reaches 60-90 square meters (internal and external space). Text and photo sources: http://csikimuzeum.ro; https://www.eco-turism.ro/

The museum pays tribute to one of Transylvania’s most influential 20th-century figures, Bishop Áron Márton, while also presenting the history of 20th-century Transylvania through the perspective of the Hungarian community. Áron Márton’s life journey is exceptionally suited to illustrate the contradictory historical events, political changes, dictatorships, and restrictions of freedom through which the minorities of Transylvania had to remain faithful both to the Christian commandment of love for one’s neighbor and to their national culture. Our exhibition helps visitors understand the present-day situation of Transylvanian Hungarians – in many ways thought-provoking, yet in even more ways a source of pride – and shows interactively the unique Transylvanian path of today, above which, like a “guiding light,” Bishop Áron Márton’s exemplary life and legacy point the way. At the same time, the exhibition, which presents the complex historical contexts, offers visitors the opportunity to recall their own families’ 20th-century stories and to share with their children and grandchildren memories of those times, whose tragedies must never be repeated. For teenagers, we have also prepared museum education programs designed to help them learn in an explorative and engaging way about the 20th century and about the life and teachings of Bishop Áron Márton, whose message remains meaningful and relevant even today.

CLOSED UNTIL MAY 31, 2026 Building on the experience of the temporary butterfly house in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, we opened the first permanent butterfly house in Romania, at Praid/Parajd, Harghita county, on the spring of 2012. The building, created for this very purpose, is divided into two parts and is house to a reception area that communicates with a gift shop and to a so called “flying space” with a tropical microclimate that is decorated with tropical plants, a small lake and a circular walkway. Our butterflies come to us from South-American, African and Asian butterfly farms as puppets. After their arrival, the puppets are installed in a hatchery especially built with this purpose, and, depending on species, wonderful butterflies hatch from the caterpillars after a few days. Each year, the butterfly house can be visited in the warm months and one can watch, usually at the same time, 8 up 9 different common species and several hundreds of specimens from the 6-7 changing species of butterflies. Because butterflies’ lifetime is of only a few weeks, we are attentive, when changing, to bring new species, thus inviting our visitors to come again and again. Among our permanent guests, we would like to highlight the virtuoso Blue morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides), the graceful Zebra butterflies (Heliconiinae), the ever lazy Owl butterflies (Calligo memnon), as well as the Paper kite butterfly (Idea leuconoe), which floats in the air like a silky sheet. Our butterfly house offers moments of relaxation and of excitement, both to children and to adults. Open every day from May to September. TICKETS • 10 RON - children, pupils, students • 12 RON - adults, pensioners • under 3 years old are admitted for free

The curative effects of Szejke's mineral water were documented since the 18th century. Between 1871 and 1890, the Szejke Baths and the surroundings of the village became the property and the beloved destination of Orbán Balázs. Thanks to him, Szejke rose from the rank of a "peasant bath". In the center of the settlement were the thermal baths with 24 bath tubes, and a pool with cold water fed by Attila's Spring. The locals used to drink water from the Sarolta Spring to the North. In the locality, villas had begun to be built. The tourists had at their disposal the Székely Mózes Restaurant with a hundred seats where they could party with gypsy music. The death of Orbán Balázs ended the blossoming of the small resort. After a decade of efforts, the exhibition opened on 21 May 2008. The visitors can admire the pitchers that stored mineral water at Szejke and the carts pulled by buffaloes for carrying it, which have become representative of Odorheiu Secuiesc. Geologist Bányai János, the one who has identified and mapped about 2500 mineral springs in the Szeklerland, was a renowned researcher. The museum exhibits just a part of his impressive collection of rocks and minerals, along with the portraits of the scientists who once adorned the walls of his working room.

Fântâna Brazilor bog is located at an altitude of about 950 m, in the central-western part of the Praid-Dealu volcanic plateau, in Gurghiu Mountains.  The Fântâna Brazilor bog was declared a Natura 2000 site in 2007. It appears as Luc or Ruc in the literature, but locals generally call it Datka. It is the Westernmost bog with pine trees in the Eastern Carpathians. The bog is surrounded by a spruce forest (Vaccinio-Piceetum abietis). Among the important fauna species are the red forest frog (Rana dalmatina), the red mountain frog (Rana temporaria), salamandra (Salamandra salamandra), and the mountain lizard (Zootoca vivipara). You can visit the peat bog on a visitor trail constructed with the help of the local community. If you visit on your own, please don't forget to pay the entrance fee at the small shop right before arriving at the entrance. You will discover along the path the specific processes and flora of the Siberian marshlands and forests, even insectivore plants and poisonous ones.  If you need more professional guiding, please book your time at the phone number attached here.  Text and photo source: https://www.korpa.ro/

The Snail’s Hill is a geological reserve that spans an area of ​​8 hectares at Corund/Korond. It is considered the largest aragonite occurrence in Romania, receiving a national protected status since 1980. The study of the aragonite in the area date from the 18th to 19th centuries. János Bányai (1938) argues that precipitation processes formed the carbonate deposits from saline, carbonated solutions with low temperature. The water spring from Snail’s Hill is in the form of a natural, active spring. The water appears at the base of the carbonate deposits or through the cracks of the rocks, bubbling smelly gas. The freshly depositing material is aragonite and calcite. Knop Vencel, the teacher of Czech origin invited to take courses at the Zlatna Industrial School of Stone Sculpture and Grinding, began de exploitation of aragonite in 1909. The teacher moved to Corund and established the Aragonite Polishing Factory. The peak of exploitation and processing of aragonite in Corund is placed between 1931-1939. As a result of these mining activities, the diverse forms of natural deposits were harmed, but nowadays a wald through the rocks gives a unique opportunity to discover the beauty of aragonites and banded calcites. You can visit the reserve on your own on a nicely maintained visitor path. If you need more professional guiding, please call the phone number to book your visit. You can buy simple visiting ticket, or you can opt for a combined ticket, which contains the entrance fee for the Salty bath UNICUM, lying on the foothill of the rocks. Entry fee: 5 RON