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                <title>Salt Mine</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Only twenty minutes on the train, the extraordinary royal salt mine just outside Krakow is a memorable trip underground, and contains some extraordinary salt carvings by miners, and a large chapel/church entirely hewn from salt.  An absolute "must" if you ever visit Krakow, southern Poland.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Nowa Huta</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It may not sound like the most obvious tourist attraction, but this socialist-realist settlement and steelworks (the latter ironically now owned by Mittal) offers a fascinating insight into life in pre-1989 Poland. Plonked onto Krakow by the party in an effort to stamp out the city's Catholic/conservative tradition, Nowa Huta had the opposite effect, with anti-Communism here being as strong as anywhere else.<br>The centre of the satellite town is actually rather pleasant, with its classical 1950s architecture and tree-lined streets, a sort of Communist garden suburb. The central square (plac Centralny) is a showpiece of socialist town planning.]]></description>
                
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