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The Wieliczka Salt Mine Just 13km southeast of Kraków’s city centre, in a small and unassuming grassy valley in the town of Wieliczka, one of southern Poland’s undisputed cultural and historical gems extends more than 300 metres into the salt rock veins of the earth below.
Wieliczka Salt Mine, ancient and massive salt mine in Wieliczka, Poland, near Kraków. It is one of the oldest documented salt -manufacturing sites in Europe. Though salt had been produced from brine springs since Neolithic times, rock salt was first discovered in Wieliczka in the 13th century, when the first shafts were dug, and it was mined ...
Check out what the Wieliczka Mine has to offer to millions of visitors from all over the world. On the Tourist Route. You will admire landscapes that can’t be found on the surface: as saline lakes and beautiful underground chambers, including the unique St Kinga’s Chapel.
The Wieliczka salt deposit comprises an area of 5.5 km (along an East-West line) with a width ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 km (North-South). Over the course of seven centuries, 26 open-top shafts and 180 fore-shafts connecting individual levels were drilled.
Some 14km southeast of Kraków, the Wieliczka (vyeh-leech-kah) salt mine has been welcoming tourists since 1722 and today is one of Poland's most popular attractions. It's a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels and chambers – about 300km distributed over nine levels, the deepest being 327m underground – of which a small part is open to the ...
Aug 21, 2018 · Nestled over 1,000 feet underground, the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland is a subterranean church that has been carved from salt. St. Kinga's Chapel (Photo: alfredosaz via Shutterstock) The salt cathedral houses four chapels, each adorned with decorations made from the mineral.
