“Enough fun,” I said to Alex, my 12-year-old son, after several days of vacationing in Krakow. We’d visited Wawel Castle on the hill, strolled Old Town and its impressive buildings, and explored the ...

One of the original UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Poland's Wieliczka Salt Mine was one of the world's oldest continuously operating mines until workers ceased production in 2007. Now, Wieliczka is ...

Salt is deeply encrusted onto the history of Wieliczka. Around 13.5 million years ago, seawater flooded this basin at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe. Then, slowly but surely, ...

A record 1.91 million people visited Poland’s Wieliczka Salt Mine last year, marking an increase of more than 10% compared with 2024 and confirming a full recovery in tourism after years of disruption ...