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Favorite thing: This is a close-up of one of the chandeliers...Very stunning ! I'm so happy that my photo turns out this good of something that I really love !
Can anybody guess if the fire on the candles are real fire or electric...??
I really want this candelier to be hanging down from my ceiling...
The answer is...be there !

Favorite thing: My favourite sight is certainly the chandeliers ! They look really nice & thinking that they were made by salt intrigue me so much more !
There are many hanging in the church inside the Wieliczka Salt Mine.

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The Cracow Salt-Works Museum, the most important mining museum in Europe, is located in the original underground excavations of the 700-year-old salt mine in Wieliczka, which was placed in 1978 by UNESCO on the first List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

Opening hours:
everyday 8am - 4pm 16 October - 15 April;
everyday 7.30am - 6.30pm 16 April - 15 October.

You can visits only with tourist guide. The Mine may be visited only with the guide in groups not exceeding 35 persons per one guide.
You can choose guide who can speak one of the following languages: english, german, french, spanish, dutch, russian, italian, serbian and croatian, japanese, ukrainian. Due to booking requirements, in case of groups, the date and time of arrival should be arranged beforehand on the phone with the Department of Tourism: phone: +48 12 278-73-02, +48 12 278-73-66, fax: +48 12 278-73-33, email: turystyka@kopalnia.pl. Groups not registered in advanced will be allowed only on availability of guides and visiting space. Larger parties must divide into smaller groups of not more than 35 people.

INDIVIDUAL TOURISTS are allowed into the mine regularly, therefore there is NO need to make earlier reservations. In case of individual tourists, the maximum waiting time for an appropriate number of persons to gather is 60 minutes.
Tickets are available from the Ticket Offices of the "Wieliczka" Salt Mine situated in the building of Danilowicz Shaft Top.
Feel heartily encouraged to visit the Mine in autumn or winter when the number of tourists is lower.

Tour tickets for individual tourists:
- standard rate: 35 PLN
- concessions: 25 PLN
- photographing permit: 8 PLN
- filming permit: 13 PLN

MORE info
in English:
www.wieliczka.com.pl/english/info.htm
in German:
www.wieliczka.com.pl/deutsche/info.htm
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Fondest memory: Wieliczka Salt mine.

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In the mine you can explore the subterranean world of labyrinthine passages, giant caverns, and underground lakes.
There are lakes Bessel, lake Weimar and ponds in the chambers of Erazm Baracz and Jozef Pilsudski.
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Today visitors walk underground for about 2,000 m in the oldest part of the salt mine, which takes two hours or so. Nine centuries of mining in Wieliczka produced a total of some 200 kilometers of passages as well as 2,040 caverns of varied size.

One traveled Frenchman once observed that it was no less magnificent than the Egyptian pyramids. Millions of visitors, the crowned heads and such celebrities as Goethe and Sarah Bemhardt among them, have appeared to share his enthusiasm when exploring the subterranean world of labyrinthine passages, giant caverns, underground lakes and chapels with sculptures in the crystalline salt and rich ornamentation carved in the salt rock.
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There are a few big chandeliers made of salt in the salt mine. Their light makes a very mysterious atmosphere in the underground.

This one on the picture is located in the Blessed Kinga Chapel.

The electric light was established in the mine for the first time in former Panzerberg II chamber in 1918. Miners worked by candles and torch-lights then by oil lamps before.
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The largest of the chapels, the Chapel of the Blessed Kinga, is located 101 meters (331 ft) below the surface, it is over 50 meters (164 ft) long, 15 meters (49 ft) wide, 12 meters (39 ft) high, with a volume of 10,000 cubic meters (13,080 cubic yards).
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Favorite thing: The famous salt mine is huge. It is 327 metres deep and is over 300km long. The temperature is a fairly constant of about 15 degrees C all year round.