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A small cave lined with calcite crystals, broken into by miners in a gallery of the Farcu bauxite mine; it is visited with a guide, after an exhibition on mining.
A cave reserve in the limestone plateau of Dobruja, also called the Bat Cave, with three entrances, more than 480 m of passages and colonies of protected bats; people sheltered here as early as the Palaeolithic.
An active cave in the Trascău Mountains, with a portal almost 40 m high in the limestone wall and an underground river of lakes and waterfalls, visited only on guided tours in a wetsuit.
A very deep cave in the southern Rodna Mountains, with gypsum flowers, mirabilite, the “Tăușoare balls” and cave bear bones; a reserve closed to ordinary tourism.
A labyrinth of galleries nearly 4 km long, cut into the limestone beneath the plateau of Limanu commune, close to Mangalia; a nature monument and bat shelter, not a cave developed for tourists.
A cave near Mangalia, sealed off from the surface, where life depends on chemosynthesis rather than sunlight; closed to the public, open only to researchers with permission.
A sandstone shelter in the Vorona forests where St Onufrie lived as a hermit from 1764 to 1789; a pilgrimage site ~1.5 km from Sihăstria Voronei Monastery.
A cave closed to visitors in the Miniș valley near Anina, where some of the oldest modern human fossils in Europe, about 40,000 years old, came to light in 2002.
A show cave in the Ordâncușa Valley near Gârda de Sus, with a 22 m high entrance portal, a stream that runs through it all year and small tufa cascades right at the entrance.
A cave more than 10 km long, carved by the Olteț river into the limestone of the Olteț Gorge, with 800 m of gallery open to visitors and legends about Zalmoxis, a kilometre from Polovragi Monastery.
A wild cave of about 390 m in the limestone of the Postăvarul mountains, a few kilometres from Râșnov, decorated with flowstone and visited only with a guide or caver, using exploration gear.
A cave with three levels and 1,450 m of passages in the Poiana Ruscă Mountains, with a wide entrance and a hall with good acoustics, where concerts have been held since the 1980s.
A hermitage of monks hidden among the crags of the Neamț mountains, with a wooden church of 1813 and the cave where St Theodora of Sihla lived as a recluse.
A cave in the limestone face of Casian Hill above the Casimcea valley in Dobruja, reached by a metal staircase; the nearby monastery uses it as a place of prayer.
A cave reserve in the Giurgeu Mountains, with over 1,000 m of passages on four levels, visited only with a guide on a torch-lit route, among stalactites, columns and aragonite crystals.
