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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines' has mentioned 'Salt' in the following places:
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| Polish salt mine operated for 700 years | WIKI |
| Wieliczka Salt MineUNESCO World Heritage SiteSt. | WIKI |
| Kinga's Chapel, deep in the Wieliczka salt mineLocationWieliczka, Krakxc3xb3w County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, PolandPart ofWieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt MinesIncludes Salt Mine in Wieliczka Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka CriteriaCultural:xc2xa0(iv)Reference32terInscription1978 (2nd session)Extensions2008, 2013Endangered1989xe2x80x931998[1]Area970xc2xa0ha (2,400 acres)Bufferxc2xa0zone250xc2xa0ha (620 acres)Websitewww.kopalnia.plCoordinates49xc2xb058xe2x80xb245xe2x80xb3N 20xc2xb03xe2x80xb250xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf49.97917xc2xb0N 20.06389xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 49.97917; 20.06389Coordinates: 49xc2xb058xe2x80xb245xe2x80xb3N 20xc2xb03xe2x80xb250xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf49.97917xc2xb0N 20.06389xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 49.97917; 20.06389Location of Wieliczka Salt Mine in Lesser Poland VoivodeshipShow map of Lesser Poland VoivodeshipWieliczka Salt Mine (Poland)Show map of Poland | WIKI |
| The Wieliczka Salt Mine (Polish: Kopalnia soli Wieliczka), in the town of Wieliczka, southern Poland, lies within the Krakxc3xb3w metropolitan area. | WIKI |
| From Neolithic times, sodium chloride (table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| Throughout its history, the royal salt mine was operated by the xc5xbbupy Krakowskie (Krakxc3xb3w Salt Mines) company. | WIKI |
| Due to falling salt prices and mine flooding, commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996. | WIKI |
| The Wieliczka Salt Mine is now an official Polish Historic Monument (Pomnik Historii) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| Surface and underground views of the Wieliczka Salt Mine. | WIKI |
| The Wieliczka Salt Mine reaches a depth of 327 meters, and extends via horizontal passages and chambers for over 287 kilometers (178 miles). | WIKI |
| King Casimir III the Great (reigned 1333xe2x80x931370) contributed greatly to the development of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, granting it many privileges and taking the miners under his care. | WIKI |
| In 1363 he founded a hospital near the salt mine. | WIKI |
| Over the period of the mine's operation, many chambers were dug[5] and various technologies were added, such as the Hungarian horse treadmill and the Saxon treadmill for hauling salt to the surface. | WIKI |
| The mine features an underground lake, exhibits on the history of salt mining, and a 3.5-kilometer (2.2-mile) visitors' route (less than 2 percent of the mine passages' total length) including statues carved from the rock salt at various times. | WIKI |
| In 1978 the Wieliczka Salt Mine was placed on the original UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. | WIKI |
| As part of her dowry, she asked her father, Bxc3xa9la IV of Hungary, for a lump of salt, since salt was prizeworthy in Poland. | WIKI |
| Her father King Bxc3xa9la took her to a salt mine in Mxc3xa1ramaros. | WIKI |
| The people found a lump of salt in there and when they split it in two, discovered the princess's ring. | WIKI |
| Kinga had thus become the patron saint of salt miners in and around the Polish capital. | WIKI |
| In 2010 it was successfully proposed that the nearby historic Bochnia Salt Mine (Poland's oldest salt mine) be added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. | WIKI |
| The two sister salt mines now appear together in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites as the "Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines". | WIKI |
| About 1.2 million people visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine annually. | WIKI |
| The earliest writings about the Wieliczka Salt Mine include a description by Adam Schrxc3xb6ter: Salinarum Vieliciensium incunda ac vera descriptio. | WIKI |
| The Polish journalist and novelist Bolesxc5x82aw Prus described his 1878 visit to the salt mine in a remarkable series of three articles, "Kartki z podrxc3xb3xc5xbcy (Wieliczka)" ["Travel Notes (Wieliczka)"], in Kurier Warszawski (The Warsaw Courier), 1878, nos. | WIKI |
| "[13] The Wieliczka Salt Mine indeed helped inspire Pharaoh. | WIKI |
| [16] Prus combined his powerful impressions of the salt mine with the description of the ancient Egyptian Labyrinth, in Book II of Herodotus' Histories, to produce the remarkable scenes found in chapters 56 and 63 of his novel. | WIKI |
| Wieliczka Salt Mine Mine entrancewith headframe Saint Barbara, carvedinto the rock salt[3] Leonardo's The Last Supper,carved into rock-salt wall xc2xa0Old corridorxc2xa0 Rock-salt statue ofPope John Paul II Old winchin the museum Bottom ofSt. | WIKI |
| The Wieliczka and Bochnia salt mines are located on the same geological rock salt deposit in southern Poland. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines illustrate the historic stages of the development of mining techniques in Europe, from the 13th to the 20th centuries. | UNESCO |
| This serial property consists of all three components historically constituting one royal enterprise Krakxc3xb3w Saltworks: Wieliczka salt mine, Bochnia salt mine and the Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka. | UNESCO |
| The Wieliczka Saltworks Castle, which historically administered the mines and managed sales of the salt for the benefit of the princes and kings of Poland, gives a new dimension for the Outstanding Universal Value of the ensemble. | UNESCO |
| The Wieliczka salt mine is legally protected both as a registered historic monument (Nxc2xb0 A-580, 1976) and as the Monument of History (Presidential decree, 1994). | UNESCO |
| The Bochnia salt mine is legally protected both as a registered historic monument (Nxc2xb0 A-238, December 1981) and as the Monument of History (presidential decree, September 2000). | UNESCO |