Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Posted on March 19, 2014 | 3 Comments

Inside the Wieliczka Salt Mine, Krakow, Poland

The mine is a tourist attraction and about one million, two hundred thousand people visit every year.  This might seem like a strange sort of place to visit but the attraction is a collection of statues and an entire cathedral that have been carved out of the rock salt by the miners over the years – presumably during their tea breaks.  So impressive are the sculptures that in 1978 the Wieliczka salt mine was placed on the original UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

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3 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside”

  1. restlessjo | March 19, 2014 at 8:34 am | Reply

    I did enjoy my visit here. Seems like a long time ago now. 🙂

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  2. Let's CUT the Crap! | March 19, 2014 at 12:42 pm | Reply

    I am always amazed what the human mind and hand can achieve. 🙂

    Like

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