Would you like to take a walk among the salt works of art? Do you want to get to know the dazzling face of the Mine? Choose the Tourist Route! Do you prefer to wander the dark …

See the priceless monument of world material culture, entered in 1978 on the First UNESCO World Heritage List.

Choose the Tourist Route if you want to discover the secrets hidden deep underground. Check out what the Wieliczka Mine has to offer to millions of visitors from all over the world.

The “Wieliczka” Salt Mine is an invaluable natural and technical monument, one of the twelve sites in the world that made the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Would you like to take a walk among the salt works of art? Do you want to get to know the dazzling face of the Mine? Choose the Tourist Route!

Tourist Route - practical information

Brine – salt water drawn from springs – used to be boiled in small clay vessels, on modest hearths. In this simple way, salt was obtained already in the Neolithic times. The oldest …

In the harsh area of the Mine, where tourists turn into novice miners – adepts of the underground trade, and darkness must be overcome by means of a lamp, an extraordinary and …

Due to its unique historical and natural values, the “Wieliczka” Salt Mine is under constant care. Nearly 400 miners work daily in Wieliczka’s chambers, ramps and shafts to protect the Mine …