Wieliczka: Salt Mines
Description
Wieliczka sits right above a massive seam of rock salt, and into this, for centuries, people have dug to extract the salt. The mines now cover a massive area and descend to over 300 meters deep. Over the years the miners carved elaborate caverns, in most cases to extract the salt, but in other locations to create chapels and caverns. The mine is now open to the public to go on guided tours, these start by descending 380 steps to the first level of the mine 64 metres below the surface (by the end of the tour you descended another 71 meters to level 3 at 135 meters below.)
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Getting There
From the station walk back along the main road for a couple of hundred meters, it is all very well signed
Latitude: 49.983061; Longitude: 20.055671
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Disclaimer: Details correct at time of writing (03/06/2006), and on time of last update (06/06/2006) but may no longer be accurate, particularly if some time has passed.