The Tecuri Cave nature reserve is located in the Grădiştea Muncelului - Cioclovina Natural Park, more precisely, in the Baru commune in Hunedoara county, in a protected area of national interest. It is included in the fourth category of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, being declared a protected area due to the spectacular formations. The entrance to the cave is quite narrow, but its beauty is telling.
The best way to arrive here is from Crivadia (stop C.F.R. on the line Petroşani - Subcetate; DN 67C Petroşani - Haţeg). From the small village begins a forest road climb, which reaches the Poiana area. After passing the upstream part of Cheile Munceilor - Jgheabului. From Poiana Bojiţa, next to the forest hut, a road heads west and then south, to Pleşa Peak. After a few hundred meters from the forest hut, it branches off: on the left it goes south, and on the right, downhill, towards the edge of the limestone slope of the Strei. Near the end of the latter road, about 80 meters before the end of the road you climb to the right about 10 meters to the entrance of the Tecuri Cave. If you are lucky, you can find a ladder here, if not the only way to get to the cave is by descending with the help of ropes.
Tecuri Cave was accidentally discovered by a man from Crivadia in 1947. It is located on the left bank of the river Strei and has a length of about 500 meters. It is situated at an altitude of 920 meters, and the entrance is made through a 12 meter avenue. It is of great scientific interest, especially since it has not yet been fully explored. The Tecuri Cave nature reserve is known for its coral and stalagmite formations, and also for microcrystals. Moreover, in this cave, there is one of the most interesting and spectacular stalagmites in Romania. It is seven meters high, white with pink reflections.
One of the peculiarities of the concretion of the cave is the discs, formations that can be positioned in the most varied angles from the vertical, having diameters of about two meters. There are flattened shapes, about 10 centimeters thick, which are "glued" to the wall where the liquid that gave rise to them through very small surfaces compared to their diameter. Other types of formations can grow on their faces or edges: stalactites, coralites.
On the opposite side of the slope to the Lake Gallery, there is a gallery, high at first, then with a place to pass on the belly, where you enter some huge galleries, adorned on the ceiling, walls and floor with icicles and crystals. After the lake receded, the concretion of the floor followed, on which stalagmites of important dimensions grew, and the clay on the walls of the lake was transformed in many places into concretions with the appearance of miniconopids. The 7-meter stalagmite is among the tallest in Romania's caves. It grew after the lake disappeared here.
"Tecuri" was the name given by the locals, because tecan means in the language of the people here dolina, meaning wide and deep funnel, with flat bottom or not, with steep walls or sloping, the result of corrosion on limestone.
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