This major industrial undertaking has royal status and is the oldest of its type in Europe. The site is a serial property consisting of Wieliczka and Bochnia salt mines and Wieliczka Saltworks Castle.

The chosen location was a salt mine in Austria, which the Nazis tried to bomb later when they realised they were losing the war. How did the art survive? Video by Martina Žoldoš Produced by ...

Legend has it, it was actually Alexander the Great's horse that first discovered the salt rocks when it stopped to take a lick. Then, under British rule, salt mining ramped up in the 1870s.

As temperatures have dropped and icy weather has hit the UK, you've probably run in to some gritter salt ... Mine was opened in the 1970s and, at the time, was the deepest mine in all of Europe.

Alongside the Norwegian city of Bodo, and the Estonian city of Tartu, it has been crowned a European ... Salt – explores how salt and water have profoundly shaped the area's history. Salt mining ...