Wieliczka

On monday afternoon we took a bus to a little town called Wieliczka, about half an hour from Krakow. Under the city of Wieliczka lays a salt mine that has been active continuously from the 13th century until 2007 and is both one of the largest and oldest salt mines in the world. Nowadays the salt mine is a large museum where you get to know a lot of the history of the mine and how the mine worked before we had the technology we have today.
Beyond the exhibitions found in the mines there were a lot of statues and religious sites built by the workers during the whole history of the cave. The most famous part and impressive part of the mine were the large chapel carved in stone about 100 meters below ground.

The Chapel of St. Kinga. The chapel is regularly used for weddings, masses and concerts.

A statue of Casimir III the great (Kazimierz III Wielki in Polish) who was a polish king that lived and ruled during the 14th century.

A model of how the elevators lifting both the stone, workers and tools up and down from the surface. The horses lived, worked and died in the mines once they had been brought down there.

The Last supper was one of the beautiful artworks found in the chapel and it's naturally carved in to the stone wall of the chapel.