Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland
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The Wieliczka Salt Mine (
Polish : Kopalnia soli Wieliczka) is a
salt mine in the town of
Wieliczka , near
Kraków in southern
Poland .
From Neolithic times, sodium chloride (table salt ) was produced there from the upwelling brine . The Wieliczka salt mine , excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 1996, as one of the world’s oldest operating salt mines. Throughout its history, the royal salt mine was operated by the Żupy Krakowskie Kraków Salt Mines) company.
Tallest room in the mine © C messier/cc-by-sa-4.0
Due to falling salt prices and
mine flooding , commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is now an official Polish
Historic Monument (
Pomnik Historii ) and a
UNESCO World Heritage Site . Its attractions include the shafts and labyrinthine passageways, displays of historic salt-mining technology, an underground lake, four chapels and numerous statues carved by miners out of the
rock salt , and more recent sculptures by contemporary artists.
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