Salt City

Caves and mines are not less attractive than the underwater world - stalactites, stalagmites, wild rivers, treasures ... You just need to know where and when to get into the ground. Introducing the "cave" of life can start with the salt caves ...
One of the most famous cave sites of global importance, protected by UNESCO, are the salt mines 10 km from Krakow to Wieliczka ...





Extraction of rock salt was started here in 1280 and ended only in 1992. It was quite lucrative - income from mines accounted for one third of the royal treasury age-old times. Famous Poles still in the 15th century brought the tradition to visit the mine. The first was Nicolaus Copernicus, who became famous in the field of astronomy. And to this day here drive high, including foreign workers. Do not fail to get into the ground and the Pope ...



The depth of the excavation reaches 327 meters under the ground, on 9 levels are more than 2,000 cameras.



The main tourist mine Danilovich is a whole underground city made entirely of salt.



Numerous salt caves and grottoes are located on nine levels, or floors and interconnected tunnels with a total length of about 200 km.



The spectacle is really impressive, but bear "hydrochloric tour" is not so simple. It lasts more than two hours, breathing heavily under the ground - in the air a lot of salt ...



Wieliczka Salt Mine became popular primarily due to its unique underground design.
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Local miners in their free time engaged in creative work - sculpted from a variety of salt sculptures: Dwarves, miners, images of saints and kings.



The exhaust chambers create entire theme rooms. For each cell, and even work, composed legends ...



Truly majestic looks Chapel of St. Kinga - patron saint of Polish miners - a huge underground hall, whose walls are entirely decorated with paintings and icons of salt ...



... Paul made a brilliant salt "parquet» ...



In the chapel there, what to see - beautiful statue of salt, one of the last - John Paul II ...



... And even operating underground church with an iconostasis ...



In addition, all this splendor sanctify huge salt chandeliers.

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