Wieliczka
Wieliczka is a historic town in southern Poland, situated within the Kraków metropolitan area in Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999.
Wieliczka is a historic town in southern Poland, situated within the Kraków metropolitan area in Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. The town was initially founded in 1290 by Premislaus II of Poland. Nowadays, it is mostly known for the Wieliczka Salt Mine, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, and the historic old town core which was listed as one of National Polish Monuments in 1994. The population in 2023 was estimated at 27,845.
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Worth seeing in and around Wieliczka
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Żupny Castle
Żupny Castle is a Gothic castle, the former headquarters of the Wieliczka and Bochnia Salt Mine. The castle is located in the former mine complex and was designated as part of the Wieliczka and Bochnia UNESCO World Heritage Site, since an expansion in 2013.
800 m · castle in Wieliczka, Poland · Wikipedia - 02Sanctuary of the Holy Family in Kraków
The Church of the Holy Family is a Catholic Parish church located in the Biezanów-Prokocim district of Kraków, Poland. It began construction in 1983 and was finished in 1992.
4.5 km · church building in Kraków, Poland · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Wieliczka Salt Mine
Daniłowicza 10, fax: +48 12 278 73 80, informacja@kopalnia.pl.
- 02Graduation Tower
A graduation tower used for the evaporation of brine to produce salt.
- 03Castle Saltworks & Saltworks Museum
From Wikivoyage: Wieliczka, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
There are several places to eat and drink around the salt mine and in the town centre.
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Getting to Wieliczka
- Airports
- Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 22 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 89 km · Rzeszów-Jasionka (RZE), 140 km
- Katowice → Wieliczka80 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · zł20–27
- Jasionka → Wieliczka223 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · zł70–95
- Łódź → Wieliczka203 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · zł65–85
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Wieliczka
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wieliczka. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inKTW airport is north of Katowice town, but there are connecting minibuses to town and direct to Kraków.
- Go nextSK-BUS minibuses from Kraków Main Railway Station (Dworzec Główny), or train (direction: Tarnów, Rzeszów, Stróże, Nowy Sącz/Krynica).
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Next door to Wieliczka
Wieliczka is 12 km from Kraków, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Zabawavillage in Gmina Wieliczka, Poland1.8 km