Roman Steps (Ruda-Brad)
One of the few Roman-era mining galleries preserved in the Apuseni Mountains, dug nearly 2,000 years ago.
Treptele Romane (“the Roman Steps”) is a mining gallery cut into the rock at the edge of Ruda village, near Brad, in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD, to extract gold from the deposits of the Metaliferi Mountains. The gallery, about 200 metres long, takes its name from the steps cut into stone at the end of the tunnel, dug by hand with pickaxes by miners during the Roman occupation of Dacia.
The area had been worked for gold since Dacian times and stayed in use for centuries afterwards, making it one of the few visible traces of Roman mining technique in Dacia. For safety reasons, the gallery entrance is currently closed with a metal door, and visitors can only see the pavilion built at the entrance; local authorities plan to open the area up for visiting.
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