Underground salt cathedral carved over seven centuries
Wieliczka salt mine is one of the world's oldest and largest, worked continuously for nearly 1,300 years and carved with chapels, chambers, and whole theaters inside the earth. A half-mile deep, explorers descend through chambers where salt gleams like pale mother-of-pearl, and the St. Kinga's Chapel—entirely carved from salt and lit by salt-lined chandeliers—is a cathedral to human obsession with the earth's gifts.
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