Charming Krakow

Guide for tourists in Krakow

Tourism route of Salt Mine Wieliczka.

It is evaluated that year after year over a million of visitors decide to see Wieliczka. The visitors attracting salt mine is located at the depth of 327 meters and its undergrounds halls are over 300 km long. While having the tour tourists have possibility to pass over 3,5 km route full of mythic shapes and historical monuments.
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Auschwitz Birkenau , the most well-known cemetery.

The Auschwitz Birkenau extinction camp is perceived by the observers as the big evidence of the Holocaust as it is often mentioned when talking about the largest and most remarkable extinction camps among Europe. It was set by the Germans not long ago they have conquer the Polish areas during World War the 2nd and step by step got the important location of massive extermination of Jews coming from all over Europe, but also of huge amounts of Polish inhabitants, Romas, Soviet prisoners of war and many others.
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Gorge of Dunajec – so impressive area!

Best-known as the Pearl of Pieniny Mountains, Dunajec Gorge is the awesome location you just have to see when you’re in Poland. The Gorge runs through southern Poland and north of Slovakia. The Dunajec River Gorge makes the base for the Dunajec River that you can sail on. Surrounded by 300m steep rocks the Gorge creates 7 loops as it runs.
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Wieliczka salt mines impact on European salt trade.

It is a well-known place of inheritance to dozens generations of miners and their kins.
There is no doubt that Wieliczka Salt Mine has aid importantly to develop Polish economy. It is acknowledged as the oldest make from Poland. Not everyone knows that Wieliczka is a first manufacture that has tagged their products with a trademark. Employees put the label on the whitest, pure as ice table salt which was used by the kings. The predestination of salt was the reason of marking the barrels with the sign of the Royal Eagle. The coat of arms didn’t modify since the royal times – that gives the best example of reserving tradition and taking care of the quality and reliability of the mine.
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Wieliczka saltworks museum -follow the mining past times.

Could you imagine the most immense museum of salt production in Europe? One of them may be found close to the City of Krakow in Wieliczka Salt Mine. It was opened in the middle of XX century what is more it can inside the non-operating part of the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
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