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One of Europe’s largest salt mines, featuring vast underground halls, amusement areas, and wellness facilities. Visitors can explore the unique tunnels, enjoy the therapeutic microclimate, use the sports courts, kids’ play areas with mats and inflatable slides, trampolines, karting, table tennis, billiards, air hockey, and mini-golf. The site also features a souvenir shop, café, and food store, plus a saltwater lake, waterfall, and a small museum of mining equipment. A quiet wellness area with loungers and chairs allows guests with respiratory conditions to relax, and the mine hosts sports competitions, contests, and exhibitions.
Slănic mine is an old salt mine, located in Slănic, Prahova County, Romania, 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Bucharest. The salt mine is closed for extraction purposes, but is open for visitors, featuring a microclimate with natural air-conditioning and constant temperature and atmospheric pressure throughout the year. It is made up of two levels, named Unirea and Mihai. Many of the visitors come for its supposed healing effects due to the purity of the air. Throughout the mine visitors will find various types of equipment for recreational activity such as playground equipment and some ping-pong tables. One area is sectioned off and is used for medical patients with lung cancer to come and rest in. The main elevator shaft is unique in that it has no metallic parts due to rust. After an elevator accident in 2014, minivans are used to spiral visitors up and down.
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