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Technical monuments
Wieliczka
The Wieliczka Salt Mine (pronounced roughly "vyeh-LEECH-kah") is an underground world of chapels, lakes and carved chambers just outside Kraków, and one of the very first sites ever placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. For more than 7…
Churches & monasteries
Wieliczka
For centuries this was the miners' parish: every morning a special "diggers' Mass" was said here for the crews about to go underground, and the altars were paid for by the officials who ran the royal salt works. St Clement's Church in Wiel…
Churches & monasteries
Wieliczka
St. Sebastian's Church in Wieliczka (say "vyeh-LEECH-kah") is a 16th-century larchwood church hidden among old trees on Babina hill, on the southeastern edge of the town famous for its salt mine. Plain on the outside, it surprises inside w…
Museums
Wieliczka
The Kraków Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka (Muzeum Żup Krakowskich) tells the story of the royal salt company that ran the mines of Wieliczka and Bochnia for centuries. It has two homes: the medieval Saltworks Castle in town and a large unde…
Other
Wieliczka
On Wieliczka's Upper Market Square (Rynek Górny) the paving seems to crack open, revealing the depths of the salt mine with St Kinga's Chapel. The illusion is the work of Ryszard Paprocki – the 3D street painting "Solny Świat" (Salt World)…
Palaces
Wieliczka
Locals also call it the Saltworks Palace, and with good reason: its story has revolved around salt from the start. It was built in the 1780s by the brothers Jan and Piotr Konopka, merchants in the salt trade; later it housed mine officials…
Old towns & squares
Wieliczka
On Wieliczka's Upper Market Square the paving suddenly seems to open up and miners climb out of the crevice. This is "Salt World", a three-dimensional painting covering 350 m² and regarded as the largest work of its kind in Poland. The squ…
Other
Wieliczka
The brine graduation tower in Wieliczka (say "vyeh-LEECH-kah") is a wooden structure shaped like a medieval fortress, standing in St. Kinga's Park right next to the Daniłowicz Shaft – the entrance to the Wieliczka Salt Mine's Tourist Route…