Wieliczka Salt Mine, 1850
Bayard Taylor
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Wieliczka Salt Mine, 1850
Bayard Taylor
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The Wieliczka Salt Mine (Polish: Kopalnia soli Wieliczka ), in the town of Wieliczka, southern Poland, lies within the KrakĂłw metropolitan area.
From Neolithic times, sodium chloride (table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines. Throughout its history, the royal salt mine was operated by the ?upy Krakowskie (KrakĂłw Salt Mines) company.Due to falling salt prices and mine flooding, commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996. The Wieliczka Salt Mine is now an official Polish Historic Monument (Pomnik Historii) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its attractions include the shafts and labyrinthine passageways, displays of historic salt-mining technology, an underground lake, four chapels and numerous statues carved by miners out of the rock salt, and more recent sculptures by contemporary artists. Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825â December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4, 000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. Histravelogueswere popular in both the United States and Great Britain. He served in diplomatic posts in Russia and Prussia.