work meeting in Poland - visiting of Wieliczka's salt mine

The historic salt mine at Wieliczka is one of Poland’s greatest tourist attractions with over one million visitors a year. Salt has been mined here since the 13th century, and the story of Wieliczka in many ways mirrors the history of Poland.
In 1978, Wieliczka was put on UNESCO's World Heritage List of places of special natural and cultural value. They describe Wieliczka like this: “This deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka-Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. Spread over nine levels, it has 300 km of galleries with works of art, altars and statues sculpted in the salt, making it a place for a fascinating pilgrimage into the past of a major industrial undertaking.”