Discover Moți Country

III. Crossing the Moți Country

Ice-Cave from Scărișoara. This Cave is located in Gârda de sus Village of Alba county, and it is the first cave declared as Nature’s Monument in Romania, in 1938. This cave shelters the largest ice-block in the world, approximatively 120000m³ and over 3000 years old. Inside of it even in the summer time the temperature is lower than 0°C.

2. Glacier Cave from Vârtop

Also known as The Wonderful Cave, The Glacier Cave is nearby House of Stone hamlet, from Arieșeni village. It is the place where the oldest print of Neanderthal-Man was found in Romania, and it hosts an 1600 m³ large ice-block. Cave’s Hall it’s a true adventure and it gives you chill form the very beginning as you enter the mouth of the cave through the wet boulders. This place owns a multitude of various formations and well-preserved, from the most beautiful stalagmites, columns, parietal drapes to the wonderful calcite crystals.

3. Poarta lui Ionele Cave

This cave is located on the right slope of Ordâncușei Valley. It’s a place carved in limestone, consisting of a gallery with a bent route. At the entrance a stream welcomes you, its water springs from the rock. The legend says that the name of the cave came from a local man – Ionel – and when he had a conflict with local authorities he was hidden in this cave for several months. Due to the fact that it shelters a grand bat colony, this cave can be visited only up to a marked point.

4. Bear Cave (Urșilor)

Located in Chișcău Village this cave was discovered in 1975 and it is unique in Europe. It says that it was inhabited up until 17000 years ago by Cavern Bear, and there were found some bones older than 100 000 years.
This cave is 1500m long, but a large part of it is accessible only to the speleologists because it is declared protected nature reserve. Tourists can visit Bones-Galery- the place where were found lots of fossils (of bear, lion, black-goat, hyena etc) and also Emil Racoviță Galery and Candles Galery.

5. Meziad Cave

Located at a small distance of Remetea Village, Meziad Cave includes undergound rooms that reach a high over 40 m.
In this places there were discovered traces of human habitation dating from the stone age.
In this cave there are numerous limestone formations having weird shapes and so the people named those shapes accordingly:the Elephant, The Bride’s Shoe, the Vulture etc.

6. Poarta Zmeilor (Keit’s Gate) Cave

Poarta Zmeilor is a fossil cave located in Sălciua town in Alba county, at North-West form Trascău Mountains at about 1150m altitude.
The name of this cave is given by its natural stone-portal placed at 15 m from the cave entrance. This has formed following the erosion and dissolution of limestone rocks.
Access hall has lower entrance, under 2m diameter , and this hall allows the acces to its rooms on a total of 125m stretch.

7. Glacier Cave – of Focul Viu

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