Near Cracow, in southern Poland is the Wieliczka Salt

Mine. Not much can be seen above the surface, but

visitors are taken down into a hidden world of man-made wonders.

According to a 700-year-old legend, princes called the

Blessed Kinga threw her ring into a salt mine at Marmaros

in Hungary. While traveling from Marmaros to Cracow, she

stopped at Wieliczka and her servants were told to dig well

and she found her ring.

For over seven centuries salt has been mined ffrom the rock

by hands. After that date, horses were used to carry salt out.

The work was still very dangerous and many miners were

killed or injured. The constant danger made the miners

deeply religious and they built a chapel. A chapel was destroyed

by fire in 1697.Miners were not allowed to take wooden statues

into the mine so they began to carve sculptures from rock salt.

Nowadays visitors are shown haw salt was mined long ago, and see

enormous cchambers which have been dug out of solid rock. They

can see green lakes too. The special attraction is the chapel of

Blessed Kinga, which was made by miners themselves in a

chamber 100 metres underground.

You will be amazed bby unforgettable sights, so don’t miss

your chance to see Wieliczka Salt Mine.