The original slides
Miners' wood polished by centuries — ridden in their suits.
Andrew Bossi — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ray Swi-hymn from Sijhih-Taipei, Taiwan — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ray Swi-hymn from Sijhih-Taipei, Taiwan — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ewald Ehtreiber — CC BY-SA 4.0
Twins of one company: Dürrnberg nearer Salzburg (fifteen minutes) and richer in Celtic display; Hallstatt older in finds and finer in approach (funicular and lake skywalk). The rule: take your city's mine — both repeats itself for all but devotees.
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Salzburg is named for salt — and the Salt Worlds at Dürrnberg above Hallein tell the tale from inside: a mine worked seven thousand years (earth's oldest archaeologically working — the mother Celtic salt culture lived here), entered in white miners' suits over your clothes, by electric train into the tunnels. The delight is legend-grade: the original wooden slides — two runs of 27 and 42 metres taken like centuries of miners — the underground salt lake crossed by raft under a light show, and the Austrian-German border passed beneath the earth without a passport. Above, a rebuilt Celtic village comes with the ticket — and the trip from Salzburg is fifteen minutes by car or bus 41: a self-complete family half-day, the constant cave cool making its jacket a summer feature too.
Miners' wood polished by centuries — ridden in their suits.
The underground raft crossing beneath its light show.
Austria into Germany beneath the mountain in a step.
The first salt Celts — earth's oldest mine story.
Ramsaustrasse 3, 5422 Bad Dürrnberg