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Sălaj - Authentic experience of Transylvania
Top 10 tourist attractions

Transylvania’s authentic experiences can be found in Sălaj
County due to a complex tourist potential characterized by
diversity of resources, specially oriented thematic routes
to fully satisfy the most sophisticated tourist penchant,
such as cultural-historical, ecumenical, ecotourism, gas-
tro-touristic, bee-safaris or general tourist routes, which
surprise the remarkable authenticity of the gate to the
heart of Transylvania.

Porolissum - Moigrad
Archaeological Complex
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The Porolissum Archaeological Complex, located
in Moigrad, with Porolissum military fortification Porolissum - Moigrad Archaeological Complex
area and civil settlement, capital of Dacia Poroli-
ssensis, is part of the Roman Dacia limes and is a major towers, earth waves, walls, small fortifications, with the
area of interest for the project of registering it with UN- fortresses behind the limes usually placed at a distance of
ESCO World Heritage. The area where Porolissum Moigrad about 5 km from the limes, the accompanying civil settle-
Archaeological Complex is located was a Roman city in Da- ments and non-Roman structures. The castra are similar,
cia and covers an area of approximately 200 ha. After the these are garrisons of mixed infantry and cavalry troops
Roman conquest and the organization of the province of most probably built precisely by them. In some places, the
Dacia, Roman military strategists raised the Northeastern earth waves are clearly visible, being close to their original
border of the Roman Empire, having the limes delimiting height, the characteristics of limes being best preserved in
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the territories of Dacia province from the area unoccupied this area of Moigrad (Porolissum) .
by the Romans, that of the free Dacians. The structure of At Porolissum, the Roman road leading to Porta Praetoria
the limes consists of an extremely complex system of and the castrum is a section of the imperial road that used
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3 www.limesromania.ro