The Natural Tourist Potential in the Bilbor Depression
George-Bogdan TOFAN*1
* Corresponding author
1 Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
E-mail: george.tofan@ubbcluj.ro
Pages: 151-156. URL: https://geografie.ubbcluj.ro/ccau/jssp/arhiva2_2010/08JSSP022010.pdf
Cite: Tofan G.-B. (2010), The Natural Tourist Potential in the Bilbor Depression. Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, 1(2), 151-156. URL: https://geografie.ubbcluj.ro/ccau/jssp/arhiva2_2010/08JSSP022010.pdf
Abstract. Bilbor is a depression region, located between three mountainous massifs which surrounds it as walls do to a citadel. The depression is opened to all the cardinal points for practicing mountainous tourism as through its particular beauty it offers beautiful scenery to the visitor, with the fir trees coming down to the outer boundaries of the commune, inviting to hiking tours. The relief of the depression and its surroundings present a very diversified and equally, highly picturesque scenery that fully rewards the tourists’ curiosity.
K e y w o r d s: mineral waters, moffette aureole, temperature inversions, „borviz swamps”