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Countdown to WYD: Exploring the Mysterious Wieliczka Salt Mines of Krakow St. Kinga's Chapel, deep in the Wieliczka salt mine. (photo: Image Credit: “Cezary p”, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia ...
Revel in the musical riches of Poland’s historical second city, whose countless concert venues even include a chapel deep within a salt mine. Stepping into a tiny lift to head 100 metres ...
The Wieliczka Salt Mine, near Krakow, was built during the 13th century and is entirely carved in salt. It contains 2,000 rooms, a breath-taking chapel, function chandeliers and a lake.
But the active Wieliczka Salt Mine, 10 kilometers southwest of Krakow and 65 meters hidden below ground is an excavation with a unique ... The most spectacular chamber is the Chapel of Saint ...
Ever windsurfed across a saltwater lake or visited a 400-year-old chapel—underground? Try it out in Poland, at an unbelievable mine-turned-subterranean playground outside Krakow.
Rain clouds had been following us all around Poland and so we doubled the usual tour of castles, cathedrals and museums. Fair enough. Warsaw and Krakow have more than their fair share of them. But … ...
Just ten miles south of the Polish city of Krakow is a remarkable place carved from salt. It’s one of the country’s amazing UNESCO heritage sites.
Jlin: An Oct. 24 music column about the Unsound festival in Krakow, Poland, mischaracterized the work that the artist known as Jlin (born Jerrilynn Patton) does at an Indiana steel plant.
Stepping into a tiny lift to head 100 metres underground into a mine is a concert-going first for me. So is hearing one of today’s finest countertenors serenade a packed audience in a chapel ...