A salt mine worked for 700 years, with an underground world of chambers, lakes and chapels carved from rock salt, including the vast Chapel of St Kinga, where even the chandeliers are made of salt crystals. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The guided Tourist Route goes down about 800 steps and covers about 3 km, taking 2 to 3 hours; a lift brings you back up. It's about 14°C inside. Book online for a tour in your language. It's 30 minutes by train or bus from Kraków.
The hill above the Vistula where Polish kings were crowned and buried.
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The largest Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.
The largest and most beautiful lake in the Tatra Mountains, a deep green-blue glacial lake beneath granite peaks, including Rysy, the highest mountai…
Wrocław's market square is one of the largest in Europe, surrounded by colourful houses, with an ornate Gothic Town Hall in the middle.
Warsaw's Old Town was almost completely destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt brick by brick from paintings and old photographs, so faithfully that it's a UN…
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