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Wieliczka salt mine — a UNESCO world heritage site — has chapels, salt carvings, and underground lakes. It's also helping people recover from COVID.
In peaceful times, Soledar was known for its massive underground salt mine, whose tunnels go on for more than 200 kilometres, stretching underneath the town itself and across the surrounding region.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow is a marvel of human ingenuity and natural beauty, offering visitors a journey into an underground world of lakes, chapels, and chandeliers-all made of salt ...
Twenty kilometres from Salzburg, this underground site reveals how “white gold” fashioned the region and gave its name to the “city of salt”.
13 A woman whose job it is to monitor the elevators that whiz people -- and salt -- to the surface. A total of 230 people work for the salt mine, with a small team of 25 miners who actively mine salt.
The most important conclusion of the team of Hungarian experts who assessed the situation of the Praid Salt Mine within the ...
Deep underground, an ancient child toiled away in a salt mine. Perhaps their job was to shovel up discarded rocks. Or perhaps they carried precious materials to the surface.