Wieliczka

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Wieliczka
—  Market Town  —
Park in Wieliczka with church in background
Coat of arms
Wieliczka
Coordinates: 49°59′22″N 20°3′58″E / 49.98944°N 20.06611°E / 49.98944; 20.06611
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lesser Poland
County	Wieliczka County
Gmina	Gmina Wieliczka
Established	1123-1127
Town rights	1290
Government
- Mayor	Artur Kozioł
Area
- Total	13.41 km2 (5.2 sq mi)
Population (2006)
- Total	19,133
- Density	1,426.8/km2 (3,695.3/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	32-020
Area code(s)	+48 12
Car plates	KWI
Website	http://www.wieliczka.gmina.pl

Wieliczka [vjeˈlit​͡ʂka] is a town (2006 population: 19,128) in southern Poland in the Kraków metropolitan area, and situated (since 1999) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship; previously, it was in Kraków Voivodeship (1975-1998). The town was founded in 1290 by Duke Premislas II of Poland.

Located under the town of Wieliczka is the Wieliczka Salt Mine – one of the world's oldest operating salt mines (the oldest is at Bochnia, Poland, 20 kilometers from Wieliczka), which has been in operation since prehistoric times.

Wieliczka panorama with a distant view of Łęg in Kraków

[edit] See also

• Wieliczka Salt Mine

[edit] References

• Jerzy Grzesiowski, Wieliczka: kopalnia, muzeum, zamek (Wieliczka: the Mine, the Museum, the Castle), 2nd ed., updated and augmented, Warsaw, Sport i Turystyka, 1987, ISBN 83-217-2637-2.

[edit] External links

Town Centre of Wieliczka, with Church of St. Klemense

• Exhibition of Technique in Wieliczka
• Hotels in Wieliczka
• Wieliczka County page
• Wieliczka city (community) page
• Wieliczka travel guide from wikitravel
• Air Pollution Intrusion into the Wieliczka Salt Mine
• Wieliczka Guide
• Wieliczka on Interactive map of Krakow

• Media related to Wieliczka at Wikimedia Commons
•  "Wieliczka". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. 

Coordinates: 49°59′N 20°04′E / 49.983°N 20.067°E / 49.983; 20.067

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