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We started the salt mine tour by descending
400 feet on wooden stairs -- this is a shot looking down the stairwell. |
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Looking down the stairs as we descend from
one level down to another. |
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A chapel carved out of the salt. This entire
room was carved by 3 men (two brothers plus one other man) over the
course of a decade or so. |
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A wall carving of The Last Supper on the wall
of the chapel above. |
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Another sculpture down in the salt mine --
about 8' tall (and, shutterbugs, you really flatten out this sort of
show when you use a flash, as I did here). |
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A work room down in the salt mine. |
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A shot of the cemetery in Wieliczka -- a
truly amazing place. Patti's grandfather is buried here. |
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We were at the cemetery less than a week
before All Saints' Day, so there were a number of people out cleaning up
the gravesites of their families. The colored glass containers house
candles, which people bring out and light for their families. |
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We were in a bus riding past the Krakow
cemetery several days after we were in Wieliczka, and the number of
burning candles made for a rather spectacular site. |
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The cemetery is up on a hill, so, as you look
out over the gravesites, the roofs of the houses of the town continue a
similar vernacular off to the horizon. |
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One more shot of the cemetery. Overall, this
was one of the neatest places we visited, which motivated us to swing by
the Krakow cemetery a few days later, which was larger and a bit more
spread out. |
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