“Enough fun,” I said to Alex, my 12-year-old son, after several days of vacationing in Krakow. We’d visited Wawel Castle on the hill, strolled Old Town and its impressive buildings, and explored the ...

Down at the bottom of 380 dizzying steps, the walls are an imperfect gray. They look like rock — but they taste salty. How do visitors know? They’re encouraged to lick them. Just to the southeast of ...

The deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka and Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. This major industrial undertaking has royal status and is the oldest of its type in Europe. The site is a ...

WIELICZKA, Poland — Rain clouds had been following us all around Poland, and so we doubled the usual tour of castles, cathedrals and museums. Fair enough, Warsaw and Krakow have more than enough of ...

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