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Salty heritage of Malopolska
The one and only site in the world where mining has continued since the Middle Ages is the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland. Salt has been mined here since the 13th century.
 The salt mine has 300 km of galleries with works of art, altars, and statues sculpted into the salt. But beauty alone was not the reason for the mine’s addition to the UNESCO’s World Heritage List, rather the fact that the history of Wieliczka is a reflection of progress in mining technology, development of work organization and management and birth of legislation in industry.
Paweł Kamiński and Katarzyna Fortuna travelled under the ground and asked Professor Antoni Jodłowski, the main director of the Cracow Salt-Works Museum in Wieliczka and Monika Szczepa, a former guide and at present a press room worker of the Wieliczka Salt Mine about the mine’s past and present.
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