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  • Wieliczka, The Salt Kingdom 64 Metres Below Ground

    The Wieliczka Salt Mines is a place you must see. It transports you to a mysterious world of salt beneath the earth’s surface. There are hundreds of kilometres of tunnels with underground chapels, works of art and statues carved in salt, creating a fascinating journey into the past. Far, far away, behind mountains, forests and…

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  • The Symbol of the Mermaid

    A mermaid is a mythical sea-dwelling creature, often described as having the head and body of a woman and fish’s tail below the waist. Whoever looks into the water sees his own image, but behind it living creatures soon loom up; fishes, presumably, harmless dwellers of the deep-harmless, if only the lake were not haunted.…

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