Prospecting of Natural and Human Tourism Potential of Salaj County.

Abstract

Salaj county has a rich and diversified tourism potential induced both by natural and human resources. Natural potential consists in the presence of natural resources of the following types: morphological (the mountainous relief, spectacular valleys with sectors of gorges or gullets, karst relief, residual microforms or those created by the action of the external agents), climatic, hydrological (the presence of mineral waters mainly sulfurous and thermal which have been known and used since the previous century, the spectacular landscapes created by some peculiarities of the river valley and also to the presence of a few lakes), bio-geographical (vast areas with forest, which give the appellation of Sylvania Country). In Salaj there are also a few natural reservations and over 350 archeological (the Roman castra Porolissum, and also many other vestiges of Roman, Dacian or even prehistorical origin) and architectural sites with a great architectural and historical value, original gastronomical and folk traditions, cultural and artistic events known both locally and nationally. Distinctive for Salaj county is the presence of over 70 wooden churches, architectural monuments of great artistic and historical value.

Keywords

• natural touristic potential
• human touristic potential
• relief
• mineral springs
• sulfurous waters
• thermal waters
• gorges
• canyon
• lakes
• plant associations
• edifices with touristic function
• churches
• ethnographic resources