The Wieliczka Salt Mines

[Hand of Evil]

Saw on the history channel and said cool.

THE WIELICZKA SALT MINES
http://www.kopalnia-wieliczka.pl/english/
MAP
http://www.poland-embassy.si/eng/poland/wieliczka.htm

 

[Hand of Evil]

It is amazing in that the areas closed include brime lakes and canals.

 

[Hand of Evil]

My last pimp on this!

 

[Prince of Happiness]

DAMN! This is pretty cool! I really love the king's chamber.

It would be fun to compile a list of "real world dungeons" as inspiration for design. Places like the tunnels underneath Liverpool, I believe there was an underground "ward" in Edinburgh, Carlsbad Caverns, etc...

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Oh, and to get:

Ham stuffed with asparagus with capar sauce, pastry
Cream mushroom soup
Chicken entrecote with curry sauce, rice
Salads
Vienna Cheesecake
Juice, mineral water - 300 ml
Coffee or tea

for about $11.50 sounds good to me! I had to look at the menu in the underground restaurant.

 

[darklight]

That is absolutely amazing!
According to http://www.poland-embassy.si/eng/poland/wieliczka.htm there is 190(!) miles of corridors and rooms!! Just walking through these would take several days, let alone sneaking cautiously, searching for traps. I guess those big old dungeons can make sense after all

I had never heard of this, even though I live fairly close to it (in Denmark) I have to go see it sometime. It's only 940kms away

Thanks a lot for the links.

darklight

 

[mythusmage]

Oh yeah. As I recall, the miners carved out a number of features, including a cathedral at which services were held before the communists took over. Even today sometimes marriages are performed there.

 

[ShemsuHeru]

After seeing some of the pics from the website, Undermountain in the FR setting doesn't look so far-fetched now!

 

[Piratecat]

I've been to the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira', Colombia -- but it's tremendously underrepresented on the web. I can't find any good pictures!

EDIT - a search for "salt cathedral" turned up some good ones.

 

[the Jester]

Things like this are really cool. There have been a number of stories lately about the caverns under Moscow and Paris- apparently there are societies of some form of (my theory) dark creepers that sets up theaters and stuff down below.