Wieliczka Salt Mine is available on Google Street View - Virtual Poland

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historic Salt Mine in Wieliczka, which celebrates the 35th anniversary of the entry on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is available from Thursday through Google Street View. This is the first underground facility in Europe photographed by experts from the American company.

through Google Street View Internet users around the world can view pictures of almost all the tourist area of ??the mine numbering 2.5 km in length. For virtual visitors are corridors, more than 20 chambers arranged on three levels, ranging from 64 to 135 meters underground lakes and chapels with salt sculptures, reliefs and chandeliers, this pearl of mine – Chapel of Saint Kinga.

said on Thursday Peter Zalewski of Google Poland, the pictures in the Wieliczka Salt Mine performed by two days in April of this year. The team includes a special camera with a tripod worked at a time when the monument was not available to the public. The greatest difficulty caused lighting conditions, so some of the shots had to be repeated many times.

– Mine is the first underground facility in Europe, shared by Street View and the first underground monument in the world of the importance and popularity. Previously, photographed and made available a few such facilities in the United States and Japan – said Zalewski.

Cajetan D’Obyrn, president of the Mine pointed out that making the photos of mine in Street View is a special feature just celebrated 35 anniversary of the entry monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

– It is our great surprise and joy. Mine in Wieliczka is a unique place, the most visited underground facility in the world, which annually visits more than 1 million tourists. It is also available for Internet users – he stressed.

He added that virtual panoramas allow you to see the tourist route details that often go unnoticed visitors.

Wieliczka Salt Mine operated continuously since the mid-thirteenth century. Over seven centuries miners wyrobili in the 7.5 million cubic meters so. voids voids. During this time, the nine levels of up to 327 meters deep dug 26 wells and salt selected from the 2040 chambers. At Wieliczka was a maze of nearly 300 km of corridors.

Organized tourism lasts from the end of the eighteenth century. Currently, the tourist route has 2.5 kilometers long and covers more than 20 chambers. In 1978, the mine was entered into the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

tour of Wieliczka, you can start by clicking this link.

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