This family favorite is an enormous underground city complete with salt artworks, a lake mining demonstrations, an underground restaurant, and St. Kinga’s chapel, a salt structure that still operates as a church.
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Jamie Davis Smith,
AFAR Media,
19 Feb. 2025
Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service in the chapel.
For all the shortcomings in this nationwide effort, most Germans today set an example of remorse that shames Turkish nationalist leaders equivocating about the Armenian genocide, or rightist Japanese politicians visiting the Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo that honors Class A war criminals.
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Gary J. Bass,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
Villagers plundered the shrine and sold the bronzes to antiquities dealers like Robert Hecht, who faced allegations of smuggling before his death in 2012.
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Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
Just two hours north of London, but what feels like an entire world away, the region is best known for its vast, dune-like beaches, crumbling medieval abbeys, and grande dame stately homes.
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Liam Hess,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
Over the next few centuries, the abbey’s importance as a place of study and prayer, as well as its political and cultural significance, only grew.
More than 200 visitors slowly filled the sanctuary, and at 7:30 Hanna addressed the audience, beginning with her gratitude for the use of the church and closing in appreciation of the many who had helped make the evening possible.
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Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2025
Thanks to pumping rights off the Murray River, a continuous flow of water keeps this green sanctuary sparkling against the rugged Australian backdrop.
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